The Constitutional Law of the United States, Volumen2

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Baker, Voorhis, 1910

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Power of Congress to appropriate money 588
613
Definition of 774
616
Illustrative cases arising under the Equal Protection
619
Distinction between cases coming to the Supreme Court by writs of error to state courts and those originating
620
CHAPTER LII
622
Effect of Eleventh Amendment upon federal constitutional
623
Notice 625
625
legal tender 626
626
Powers separated in the Federal Government 1261
627
VOLUME II
629
Purpose of the Commerce Clause 630
630
transportation essential 631
631
Commerce embraces water navigation 632
632
The transportation of persons is commerce 633
633
Insurance not commerce 634
634
Lotteries 638
638
Bearing of the lottery decision on insurance 639
639
Commerce does not include the production of the com modities transported 640
640
Intent to export not controlling 641
641
Interstate commerce includes the sale of the articles
642
The original package doctrine 643
643
Difficulties in applying original package doctrine 645
645
General definitions of commerce 650
650
Gibbons v Ogden 651
651
New York v Miln 655
655
License Cases 656
656
Passenger Cases 658
658
Subjects of local regulation by the States 660
660
The police powers of the States and commerce 661
661
Applications of the doctrine of the police powers of the State in their relation to interstate commerce 665
665
State inspection laws 670
670
State quarantine laws 674
674
Federal quarantine laws 676
676
The States may absolutely exclude from their borders only such articles as are intrinsically not merchantable or not legitimate articles of commerce 6...
678
Liquor legislation 680
680
The Wilson Act 681
681
Construction of the Wilson Act 683
683
Proposed legislation
693
Oleomargarine cases
694
The States and foreign corporations doing an interstate commerce business
695
Foreign corporations doing business within the States
698
What constitutes doing business in the State
699
License taxes
701
Taxation of foreign corporations
702
State tax law must not discriminate against products of other States or against companies doing an interstate commerce business
703
Drummers
705
Peddlers
709
State taxation of articles of commerce
711
State taxation of goods in transit
712
State taxation of persons in transit
714
Assessment of property of interstate carriers for pur poses of taxation
716
Rolling Stock unit of use rule
717
State taxation of receipts from interstate commerce
720
Taxation of net receipts
724
Taxation of capital stock of interstate commerce com panies
725
State regulation of carriers
726
State regulation of railway rates
728
Routes running outside of the State but with both ter minals within the State
732
FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE POWER OVER INTERSTATE COMMERCE PAGE SECTION 345 Federal legislation
734
Federal police regulations
735
Prohibition of interstate commerce
736
Federal regulation of child labor
738
The Federal Employers Liability Law of 1906
741
Employers Liability Law of 1908
743
Federal Safety Appliances Acts
744
Federal Eight Hour Law
745
Trade unions and interstate commerce federal legislation with reference to
746
Regulation of interstate railroad rates
748
The right of Congress to delegate its ratemaking power to a commission
749
The federal antitrust act
750
In re Greene
751
United States v E C Knight Co
752
United States v TransMissouri Freight Association
753
Hopkins v United States
754
Anderson v United States
755
Montague v Lowry
756
Beef Trust Case
758
Danbury Hatters Case
759
Other cases
761
The Commodities Clause of the Hepburn Act of 1906
762
Federal control of corporations under the Commerce Clause
763
Power of the Federal Government to charter companies to do a manufacturing business within the States
764
Federal permission to state manufacturing companies to engage in interstate commerce
766
Federal taxing power and interstate commerce
767
Federal control of navigable waters
768
Federal control of foreign commerce
769
Commerce with the Territories and with the District of Columbia
773
CHAPTER XLIV
774
Federal power not exclusive
775
State bankruptcy laws and the obligation of contracts
776
Uniformity
777
Due of process of law
779
Coinage and Standards of Weights and Measures 385 Coinage
780
Weights and measures
781
Postal Service 389 Federal power
782
Constitutional views of Munroe
783
Federal power to provide postal agencies
784
Ex parte Rapier
788
Power of the States to exclude from their borders objec tionable mail matter
790
Fraud orders
791
Patents and Copyrights 398 Patents
792
trademarks
793
Piracies and Felonies on the High Seas and Offenses against the Law of Nations 400 Piracies etc
794
Declaration of war
795
Civil war
796
Letters of marque and reprisal and captures on land and water
798
CHAPTER XLV
799
Importation of slaves
800
Suspension of habeas corpus
801
Ex post facto legislation
803
Appropriations
805
Limitations with respect to the definition and punishment of crime
806
Jury trial in the District of Columbia and the Terri tories
807
Twelve jurors required
808
Petty offenses
810
Infamous crimes
811
Waiver of constitutional guaranties
813
Right to jury trial not fundamental
815
Public trial
816
What constitutes jeopardy
818
Jeopardy and the right of appeal
820
The constitutionality of appeal by the government in criminal cases
822
immunity from not a requirement of due process of law
823
what constitutes
825
When right may be claimed
826
Corporations not protected against testimony by their agents
827
Private books and papers
828
Corporations protected
829
Cruel and unusual punishments
830
Treason
833
May be committed by aliens
834
No distinction in United States between high and petit treason
835
Enlistment of men does not amount to levying war
836
Treason against a State of the Union
839
Jury trial in civil suits
840
Waiver of jury in civil cases
841
Freedom of speech and press
842
Seditious libel
845
The right to bear arms
846
The quartering of troops
848
peonage
850
Seamen
853
enforcement of
854
CHAPTER XLVI
856
Historical inquiry not conclusive
858
Rules of evidence and procedure may be changed
860
Appeal not essential to due process
862
Confronting witnesses
863
Unessential statutory formalities
864
Due process and substantive rights
865
Doctrine adopted that due process includes substantive rights
868
Life
872
Equal protection of the law
873
The Federal Government and the obligation of contracts
874
CHAPTER XLVII
877
Bills of credit
878
Ex post facto legislation
881
Corporations protected
882
Clause
884
Equal protection of the law does not control the grant of political rights
886
Classifications must be reasonable
887
State laws and judicial systems not required to be uni form throughout the State
888
requires similar but not the same privileges
889
CHAPTER XLVIII
891
Changes in means or manner of enforcement of contracts
892
Contracts to which a State is a party
893
permission to do business within the State
894
Charters of public corporations
895
Contracts by municipal corporations
896
The Dart mouth College Case
897
Charter grants strictly construed
898
Charles River Bridge Co v Warren Bridge Co
899
Other cases
900
Regulation of charges of public service corporations
901
The police power and the obligation of contracts
902
Tax exemptions
905
Impairment of contracts by taxation
907
Instances of incapacity of the States to contract
908
Regulation of rates
909
Eminent domain and the obligation of contracts
910
The construction of contracts
911
Existence of a contract a federal question
912
Constitutionality of state laws alleged to impair con tracts a federal question
913
how far controlling in federal courts
914
Doctrine in cases reaching the Supreme Court by writs of error to state courts
916
McCullough v Virginia
917
Muhlker v N Y H Ry Co
918
Refusal of federal courts to follow state decisions holding state laws void
920
in lower federal courts
921
Gelpcke v Dubuque
922
Extension of the doctrine of Gelpeke v Dubuque
925
CHAPTER XLIX
927
Special assessments
928
Taxes and special assessments distinguished
929
Constitutional requirements of special assessments
930
Resort to special assessments discretionary with the legis lature
931
Adams Express Co v Ohio
951
Taxation of capital stock companies operating in two or more States
954
Taxation of intangible personal property
955
Taxation of shares of stock
957
Taxation of mortgages
960
The taxation of credits
961
Taxation of franchises
966
Taxation of good will
967
Tax exemptions and the impairment of contracts
968
CHAPTER L
970
Inferior federal courts
971
organization
972
organization
973
Inferior courts may be granted jurisdiction of cases within the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
974
appellate jurisdiction
975
Appeals from circuit and district courts
976
Appeals from circuit courts of appeal
977
Appeals from territorial and other courts
978
CHAPTER VI
979
jurisdiction
980
jurisdiction
981
jurisdiction
982
Jurisdiction of federal courts based on diversity of citizen ship
984
National banks
986
Fictitious citizenship
987
Removal of suits from state to federal courts
989
Concurrent state judicial powers
990
Writs of error to state courts 120
992
Statutory provision for removal from state to federal courts
994
Congress may not confer jurisdiction upon state courts
997
CHAPTER LI
999
Cherokee Nation v Georgia
1000
Georgia v Stanton
1001
Existence and territorial extent of sovereignty
1003
belligerency neutrality A
1005
Treaties
1007
Other political questions
1008
Suits between the States
1009
Courts will not perform nonjudicial functions
1011
Federal courts and international law
1013
Federal criminal law
1019
Right of removal of criminal cases 124
1020
Force of state interpretations
1022
exceptions
1024
Rules of evidence
1026
Unsettled construction of state law
1028
CHAPTER VIII
1030
Interstate commerce and the common law
1032
General principles of the common law as distinguished from their special and local applications
1033
Swiit v Tyson
1034
CHAPTER LIII
1040
Boundary disputes
1041
Maladministration of laws of a State to injury of citizens of another State not justiciable in a suit between the States
1044
Missouri v Illinois
1046
Kansas v Colorado
1048
Justiciable quasisovereign rights of the States
1053
New Hampshire v Louisiana and South Dakota v North Carolina
1054
Suits between the United States and a State of the Union
1057
Suits between a State and foreign States or their citizens
1059
CHAPTER LIV
1061
Chisholm v Georgia
1063
The Eleventh Amendment
1064
South Dakota v North Carolina
1066
Cohens v Virginia
1070
Corporations chartered by and of which the State is a stockholder may be sued
1073
when considered suits against the State
1074
United States v Peters
1075
United States v Bank of the United States
1076
Rule as to States being parties of record
1078
Mandamus to state officials
1079
The Virginia debt controversy
1084
In re Ayres
1089
Reagan v Trust Co
1091
Fitts v McGhee
1092
In re Young
1093
Suits to recover specific pieces of property held by the State
1096
Liens
1097
United States v Lee
1098
The doctrine of United States v Lee applied to a State
1100
Suit maintainable only where the action against the officer is a possessory one
1101
Recent cases
1102
Suability of minor political bodies
1104
Statutory consent of the United States and of the States to be sued
1105
CHAPTER LV
1107
Extent of admiralty jurisdiction
1108
Admiralty jurisdiction extends to navigable waters wholly within a State
1110
Extent of federal admiralty jurisdiction
1111
Canals
1112
Admiralty jurisdiction does not carry with it general jurisdiction over navigable waters
1113
State legislative powers with reference to admiralty matters
1114
Legislative powers of Congress flowing from admiralty and maritime jurisdiction
1117
The determination of the sphere of admiralty jurisdiction a judicial question
1118
Constitutional provisions
1121
THE MAINTENANCE OF FEDERAL SUPREMACY BY HABE AS CORPUS
1134
CHAPTER LVIII
1141
CHAPTER LIX
1150
State courts may not interfere with federal authorities 130
1152
Administrative decentralization in the States
1163
Administrative interpretations
1164
Power of the President to control the institution and prosecution of suits by the Department of Justice
1166
Information to Congress
1167
CHAPTER IX
1170
The pardoning power may not be limited by Congress
1171
Acts of amnesty and remission of penalties
1172
Suspension of sentences
1173
CHAPTER LX
1174
Inferior officers
1175
Nominations
1176
Creation of offices
1178
Appointing powers may be vested only as provided by the Constitution
1180
The power of removal
1181
Congress may regulate the removal of inferior officers
1185
Mandamus to reinstate in office
1186
The powers of removal by state governors
1187
CHAPTER LXI
1190
with reference to members of the army and navy
1191
Articles of war
1192
Obligation assumed by enlistment
1193
Powers of the military commander
1196
Courts martial
1197
jurisdiction of civil courts to review proceedings of
1198
Jurisdiction of courts martial over offenses which are also violations of the local civil law
1200
crimes against the civil law
1203
Powers of military tribunals in times of war
1206
Powers of the Commander in Chief of the army and navy
1207
Declaration of war
1208
The prosecution of war
1212
The organization and disciplining of the militia
1213
The militia as an arm of the Federal Government
1214
The use of the militia and federal troops to suppress domestic disorder
1215
Military government
1217
Military government of hostile domestic territory
1219
Military government of domestic territory in times of peace
1221
CHAPTER LXII
1224
CHAPTER XXIX
1228
Martial law a form of the police power
1229
Police power defined
1231
Police power limited
1232
Taxes defined 575
1233
Martial law does not abrogate civil law and civil guar antees
1234
State autonomy 151
1236
Martial rule and war distinguished
1238
Powers of military commander in cases of domestic dis order
1240
Martial law in time of war
1241
Ex parte Milligan
1244
Criticism
1251
Mitchell v Clark considered
1252
Habeas corpus
1253
CHAPTER XXX
1254
Power of the President to suspend the writ
1255
CHAPTER LXIII
1258
The separation of powers
1259
Separation of powers in the State not compelled by the federal Constitution
1260
The general principle stated
1263
Distinction between legislative and judicial acts
1264
Declaratory and retroactive legislation
1265
Legislative control of judicial procedure and powers
1267
Jurisdiction and judicial power distinguished
1268
Powers of courts to punish contempts
1270
Power of Congress to punish for contempts
1272
The performance of administrative acts by the courts
1274
Judicial review of administraeive determinations
1276
Judicial powers of administrative agents
1277
CHAPTER LXIV
1278
Fraud orders
1283
Chinese Exclusion Cases
1286
The Ju Toy Case
1289
Constitutional requirements of administrative determina tions
1291
Arbitrary administrative discretion
1293
Mandamus
1296
Marbury v Madison
1297
Mandamus may not be used in place of an appeal
1298
Amenability of the President to compulsory judicial process
1300
Mississippi v Johnson
1301
Georgia v Stanton
1304
Obligation of the President to enforce laws believed by him to be unconstitutional
1306
Liability of the State for acts of its officers
1309
ultra vires acts
1310
Mandamus to compel performance of commands by ad ministrative superior
1311
malice etc
1312
Responsibility of judges of courts of superior and general jurisdiction
1315
Delegated power may not be delegated
1317
Power to issue administrative ordinances may be delegated
1318
Field v Clark
1319
Other illustrative cases
1321
Delegation of ratemaking powers
1323
The referendum as a delegation of legislative power
1324
Administrative ordinances
1325
Penal ordinances
1327
Effect of cession of territory on citizenship of inhabitants 443
1336
THE INDEPENDENCE
1347
Independence of federal authorities 141
1353
State autonomy 151
1367
Taxes defined 575
1386
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN INCORPORATED AND UNINCORPORATED
1387

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