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Study and Report for American Federation of Labor Upon Judicial Control Over Legislatures as to Constitutional Questions, 1919 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
Excerpt from Study and Report for American Federation of Labor Upon Judicial Control Over Legislatures as to Constitutional Questions, 1919 Says William L. Ransom, in "Majority Rule and the Judiciary" (page 4): "The judge has no more right than any other official to be set up over the people as an irremovable and irresponsible despot. He has no more right than any other official to decide for the people what the people ought to think about questions of vital public policy, such as the proper handling of corporations and the proper methods of securing the welfare of farmers, wage workers, small business men, and small professional men." Mr. Ransom, on page 168 of his work, quotes "The Nation" (page 203), by Elisha Mulford, as follows: " ... To make the opinions of the judiciary a finality in the political order would fetter the free spirit of the people, confining it, not in the assertion and regulation of law as the determination of the organic will, but in the conformance to a mere legality. The past, by its precedents, would impose its authority upon the present. The energy of the people perishes when precedents become the substitute for the action of a living will, and the strength of a living spirit.... The formative political power must belong only to the. power which is representative of the political will." Professor J. Allen Smith, in "The Spirit of American Government" (page 92), expresses himself to this effect: ..". But however much the convention may have desired to give to the judiciary the power to veto legislation, it could not have been done by an express provision of the Constitution. Any such attempt would have disclosed altogether too clearly the undemocratic reactionary character of the proposed government and thus have prevented its adoption. This end was attained indirectly through the general system of checks which the Constitution imposed upon the other branches of the government and upon the people, since it made it possible for the judiciar
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At the Thirty-eighth Annual Convention of the American Federa tion of Labor, held at St. Paul, Minnesota, in the month of June, 1918.
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At the Thirty-eighth Annual Convention of the American Federa tion of Labor, held at St. Paul, Minnesota, in the month of June, 1918.
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