Popular Law-making eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 485 pages of information about Popular Law-making.

Popular Law-making eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 485 pages of information about Popular Law-making.
  of sects. 
Senators, United States, direct election of. 
Separation, legal (see Divorce);
  may exist without divorce;
  of the powers (see Three Functions of Government). 
Serfs (see Villeins). 
Servants, regulation of in early England;
  laws affecting in early England, had to give notice, etc.;
  regulation of food and clothing. 
Sewerage (see Drains). 
Sex legislation, chapter concerning, chapter XVII, limitations in
    industry;
  relations formerly the province of the church. 
Sexual questions (see Woman’s Rights, Married Women, etc.),
offences made secular crimes. 
Sherman act (see Trusts), precedent in statute of monopoly;
  enacted 1890;
  meaning of;
  still uncertain. 
Ships, principle restricting merchants to domestic ships very old. 
Shirts may not be “pinched”. 
Shoes, long pikes to, forbidden. 
Signs (see Trades), public, may not be regulated under police
  power. 
Silver, payment in, may not be refused. 
“Single standard” and free divorce. 
Sins, the province of the church courts;
  distinction of from crime;
  legislation against common under James I.
Slander, made criminal act at common law by Westminster I;
  and libel, legislation relating to;
  of women made a crime. 
Slavery, in England;
  distinction between, and labor;
  thirteenth amendment is self-executing. 
Smoke, laws against. 
Socage, free and common, abolished in United States. 
Socialism (see Anarchism, Individualism), allowable, definition
    of;
  those professing may not be naturalized;
  is it compatible with a republican form of government;
  helped by women’s suffrage movement;
  municipal. 
Socialists, may be denied immigration. 
Society, possible systems of, described. 
Soldiers and sailors (see Pensions), to be treated free. 
Southwark, inhabitants of, declared to be thieves, men and women. 
Sovereign, the king under Norman ideas. 
Sovereignty, in the legislature;
  in Parliament. 
Spain, war veterans of, pensions, etc
Spanish war (see Veterans of)
Special courts declared odious. 
Specific performance of labor contracts. 
Speech (see Free Speech)
Spence quoted. 
Stage players (see Actors)
Stamford, statute of. 
Standard Oil Trust;
  legality of. 
Standard wage (see Wages), principle gives place to modern
  principle of living wage. 
Standing armies, origin of;
  early objections to;
  forbidden in Bill of Rights;
  first established in England under Charles II. 
Staple (see Forestalling), definition of;
  abolished beyond the seas;
  generally abolished in 1340;
  last statute of 1353;
  extends to wool, leather, hides, and lead;
  statute of re-enacted in 1354. 
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