Brief DrawingLongmans, Green, 1923 - 214 páginas |
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Analysis of Convictions analyze argu argument assert audience beliefs Benjamin Peirce better bibliography boys who help brief drawing brief form capital punishment chapter conclusion Congress consider consists court deal debate deductive deductive reasoning definition discussion documents equal protection erally evidence experience explain expository facts fourteenth amendment gism help their mothers helps his mother Hence illustrate Immigration important indexed induction infer interest issues John kind labor laws legislation let us take list of references lynching magazines main head material ment mind minor premise Monroe Doctrine municipal ownership Narrowing the Proposition National Civic Federation note taking observed period persons premise present proof propo proportional representation prove public ownership qualities reader reasoning relation reports sition solid paragraph statement step subdivision subheads subordinate subsidiary proposition Suppose syllogism tion topical head United validity Value of Briefing vivisection Wendell Phillips World Almanac writer
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Página 132 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 209 - Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet, if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand so as practically to make unjust and illegal discriminations between persons in similar circumstances, material to their rights, the denial of equal justice is still within the prohibition of the Constitution.
Página 203 - And so in the present case, until some state law has been passed, or some state action through its officers or agents has been taken. adverse to the rights of citizens sought to be protected by the fourteenth amendment, no legislation of the United States under said amendment, nor any proceeding under such legislation, can be called into activity, for the prohibitions of the amendment are against state laws and acts done under state authority.
Página 209 - For the cases present the ordinances in actual operation, and the facts shown establish an administration directed so exclusively against a particular class of persons as to warrant and require the conclusion, that, whatever may have been the intent of the ordinances as adopted, they are applied by the public authorities charged with their administration, and thus representing the State itself, with a mind so unequal and oppressive as to amount io a practical denial by the State...
Página 206 - The constitutional provision, therefore, must mean that no agency of the State, or of the officers or agents by whom its powers are exerted, shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Whoever, by virtue of public position under a State government, deprives another of property, life, or liberty without due process of law, or denies or takes away the equal protection of the laws, violates the constitutional inhibition ; and, as he acts under the name and for...
Página 167 - I am not afraid that you will underrate the importance of this case. It concerns the rights of the whole people. Such questions have generally been settled by arms; but since the beginning of the world no battle has ever been lost or won upon which the liberties of a nation were so distinctly staked as they are on the result of this argument. The pen that writes the judgment of the court will be mightier for good or for evil than any sword that ever was wielded by mortal arm.
Página 108 - That train of reasoning is what logicians call a syllogism, and has all its various parts and terms, — its major premiss, its minor premiss, and its conclusion.
Página 201 - That the United States lacks the police power, and that this was reserved to the states by the 10th Amendment, is true. But it is none the less true that when the United States exerts any of the powers conferred upon it by the Constitution, no valid objection can be based upon the fact that such exercise may be attended by the same incidents which attend the exercise by a state of its police power, or that it may tend to accomplish a similar purpose.
Página 108 - ... all hard and green apples are sour; and that, so far as it goes, is a perfect induction. Well, having got your natural law in this way, when you are offered another apple which you find is hard and green, you say, " All hard and green apples are sour ; this apple is hard and green, therefore this apple is sour.
Página 108 - True, it is a very small basis, but still it is enough to make an induction from; you generalise the facts, and you expect to find sourness in apples where you get hardness and greenness. You found upon that a general law that all hard and green apples are sour; and that, so far as it goes, is a perfect induction. Well, having got your natural law in this way, when you are...