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” but that charter, bad as it is, has been justified by the supreme court of the United States, on principles so bold and alarming, that no man who loves the constitution can fold his arms in apathy upon the subject.

To interpret it wisely, we should have rigidly adhered to the principle, laid down by George Clinton, when he, from the chair of the senate of the United States, gave the casting voice against the renewal of the first bank charter:

Compute and compare the progress of the United States in the arts and sciences, in about thirty years, with the progress of Europe during a similar space, and anticipate its reach in six centuries, during which Europe has been employed in effecting her attainments.

It may therefore be taken for granted that the progress of socialistic legislation and the trial of socialistic experiments in English colonies, such as the Australian Commonwealth, or in the United States, or even in an utterly foreign country, such as France, have promoted the growth of collectivism in England.

He has also carried the analysis of public opinion in England and in the United States a step further than any recent writer.

No man, however, can dispute that the existence of such a territorial democracy contributes in Switzerland, in France, and in the United States to the prosperity and the effectiveness of popular institutions.

In the United States there exist almost everywhere statutes generally similar to Lord Campbell’s Act;

There has been a contrary decision in Vermont:

In the United States, where tenancy in dower is still common, there are many modern decisions on questions of waste arising out of such tenancies.

It may probably be safely asserted that there are, at this day, no legal juries, either in England or America.

There has, probably, never been a legal jury, nor a legal trial by jury, in a single court of the United States, since the adoption of the constitution.

In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.

I recently saw it estimated, by a most respectable authority, that the steam engine had quadrupled the wealth of the United States.

And how much have the people of this country ever paid to the inventors of the steam engine, in return for the immense wealth, which it has created?

At present, the United States, England, and some other nations say, by their laws, “we will give this property a partial protection—that is, the protection of civil, but not of criminal, laws;

And there was consequently no constitutional slavery in the country up to the adoption of the constitution of the United States.

Of all the state constitutions, that were in force at the adoption of the constitution of the United States, in 1789, not one of them established, or recognized slavery.

To allow any of the “inhabitants,” included in those treaties, to be held as slaves, or denied the rights of citizenship under the United States constitution, is a plain breach of the treaties.

It is said that Chinese competition lowers the value of the American labourer in the market.

Their rate was five cents, more than three of which they expended, as the legal monopoly required, in purchasing of the United States a stamped envelope in which to carry the letter entrusted to their care.

When a Senator proposed to limit the standing army of the United States to three thousand, George Washington agreed, on condition that the honourable member would arrange that the country should never be invaded by more than two thousand.

Though, moreover, it is seen at each successive crisis that a country which, like the United States in 1856 and 1872, had no over-population, and could have no over-population, before the crisis, had hundreds of thousands, not to say millions of people, out of work or employed at half-time when the crisis came.

It is (or perhaps was) rather more distinctly marked in the United States, through prejudices against the blending of white and coloured blood.

Fitzjames Stephen, insists that there is a condition of dormant anarchy, and the reservation is doubtless made to meet such cases as that of the United States before the War of Secession.

The complex political mechanism of the United States had arisen on the other side of the Atlantic, and the even more complicated systems of the German and Swiss Confederations in Continental Europe.

Redfield, a Chicago engineer, to rehabilitate the theory of the inheritance of the effects of use and disuse.

Herbert Spencer thought one of the strongest pieces of evidence in this category was to be found in the assimilation of foreigners in the United States.

In 1911, Franz Boas of Columbia University published measurements of the head form of children of immigrants which purported to show that American conditions caused in some mysterious manner a change in the shape of the head.

A similar tendency in American State legislation was noted by my learned friend Mr.

Our lady does not, in truth, care much by what name the chief magistrate is called, whether his office is elective or hereditary, whether he has as much active discretion of his own as the President of the United States or as little as a modern King of Great Britain.

as, for example, that the Great Charter is of the nature of a Declaration of Rights, such as have played so prominent a part in France and the United States;