Reports ... Proceedings, Volume 17Ohio State Bar Association, 1896 - Bar associations List of members in each vol. |
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action Admissions and Elections adopted Akron Allen G amendment annual meeting appointed Articles of Confederation Asso attorney Bar Association bench bill Bryan Bucyrus cash paid certificate Chairman Charles Chillicothe Cincinnati Circuit Court Cleveland 66 Columbus Columbus 66 Committee on Admissions Committee on Legal Common Pleas confederation Congress constitution convention Court of Ohio Critchfield Dayton death December December 28 delegated district duty Ex-officio examination Executive Committee fact federal Findlay FITCH Follett Frank George George K Governor of Ohio honor Hurd James John Judge Elliott Judge Thurman judiciary July July 18 jury justice lawyer Legal Biography Legal Reform Legislature liberty Loudenville memorial ment mittee MYKRANTZ Ohio State Bar Ottawa Painesville party person political practice present President Put-in-Bay question salaries Sandusky Secretary Senate Springfield Supreme Court Thomas tion Toledo Toledo 66 Toledo Cleveland Union United vote Wapakoneta William Youngstown Zanesville
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Page 138 - It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property, and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit.
Page 185 - And we have already had occasion to remark at this term, that 'the people of each State compose a State, having its own government, and endowed with all the functions essential to separate and independent existence," and that 'without the States in union, there could be no such political body as the United States.
Page 180 - Constitution is to be founded on the assent and ratification' of the people of America, given by deputies elected for the special purpose; but, on the other, that this assent and ratification is to be given by the people, not as individuals composing one entire nation, but as composing the distinct and independent States to which they respectively belong.
Page 184 - Under the pressure of all the excited feeling growing out of the war, our statesmen have still believed that the existence of the States with powers for domestic and local government, including the regulation of civil rights — the rights of person and of property — was essential to the perfect working of our complex form of government, though they have thought proper to impose additional limitations on the States, and to confer additional power on that of the Nation.
Page 181 - Were the people regarded in this transaction as forming one nation, the will of the majority of the whole people of the United States would bind the minority; in the same manner as the majority...
Page 183 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass.
Page 144 - Then welcome business, welcome strife, Welcome the cares, the thorns, of life, The visage wan, the pore-blind sight, The toil by day, the lamp at night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench, the babbling hall, For thee, fair Justice, welcome all...
Page 178 - Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, wlien agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the states, render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union...
Page 179 - We the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...
Page 180 - That it will be a federal and not a national act, as these terms are understood by the objectors, the act of the people as forming so many independent States, not as forming one aggregate nation, is obvious from this single consideration that it is to result neither from the decision of a majority of the people of the Union, nor from that of a majority of the States. It must result from the unanimous assent of the several States that are parties to it, differing no...