Introductory Address of the Session of 1878-9 of the Law Department of the University of PennsylvaniaLegal Intelligencer Office, 1878 - 36 pages |
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Page 23 - To guard against transgressions of the high powers which we have delegated, we declare that everything in this article is excepted out of the general powers of government, and shall forever remain inviolate ; and that all laws contrary thereto, or contrary to this constitution, shall be void.
Page 23 - That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights ; among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, and of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property and reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness.
Page 23 - OF RIGHTS. That the general, great, and essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and unalterably established, WE DECLARE that SECTION 1.
Page 17 - But, with us at present, the monuments and evidences of our legal customs are contained in the records, of the several courts of justice in books of *reports and judicial decisions, and in the treatises of learned sages of the profession, preserved and handed down to us from the times of highest antiquity.
Page 30 - ... concerns the personal happiness and freedom of the citizen, the State is his natural protector, and I would cling to her, therefore, in whatever belongs to her reserved and ungranted powers. I have said, heretofore, that the doctrine of State rights, pushed to excess, culminated in civil war, while the rebound caused by the success of the federal arms, threatens a consolidation equally serious...
Page 15 - Integrity, as well as skill and learning, is essential to the charac. ter of the profession, and it becomes the duty of the bench, as well as of the bar itself, to preserve that character in its highest state, as a means of usefulness, and of answering the true end of a profession so honorable and at the same time so needful.
Page 32 - The Bar — its associations and fellowships ; its knightly and courteous contests ; its brilliant displays of wit and eloquence, of mental acumen and forensic learning ; its love of right and manly independence ; its kindly and ingenuous friendships — these are the true love of the lawyer, the guiding star of his hope and the gratification of his early ambition.
Page 26 - ... that the omission may not be supplied by ordinary legislation. No property was taken in this instance; but the cutting down of the street consequent on the reduction of its grade, left the building useless, and the ground on which it stood worth no more than the expense of sinking the surface of it to the common level. The loss to the congregation is a total one, while the gain to holders of property in the neighborhood is immense.
Page 26 - ... to be provided to assess the value. The constitutional provision for the case of private property taken for public use extends not to the case of property injured or destroyed; but it follows not that the omission may not be supplied by ordinary legislation. No property was taken in this instance; but the cutting down of the street, consequent on the reduction of its grade, left the building useless and the ground on which it stood worth no more than the expense of sinking it to the common level.
Page 3 - I have duly received your kind letter written as a committee of the Students of the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania, asking for a copy, for publication, of the lecture delivered by me before them on the ist instant.