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Patterson: Presidential Government In The United States. The Unwritten Constitution, Michigan Law Review
Patterson: Presidential Government In The United States. The Unwritten Constitution, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. THE UNWRITTEN CONSTITUTION. By C. Perry Patterson
Link: Wilson: The Road To The White House, Michigan Law Review
Link: Wilson: The Road To The White House, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of WILSON: THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE. By Arthur S. Link.
Constitutional Law--Investigatory Power Of Congress--Validity Of The Un-American Activities Committee Inquiries Into Professional And Political Affiliations, Charles M. Soller
Constitutional Law--Investigatory Power Of Congress--Validity Of The Un-American Activities Committee Inquiries Into Professional And Political Affiliations, Charles M. Soller
Michigan Law Review
The recent probe into the motion picture industry by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the resulting indictment of ten witnesses for contempt of Congress have served not only to keep this controversial committee in the publicity spotlight, but have also raised some constitutional questions which have long gone unanswered. The indictment of the ten recalcitrant witnesses under Title 2, section 192, of the United States Code followed their citation for contempt by the House of Representatives for refusal to give direct answers to the Committee's questions: "Are you a member of the Screen Writers Guild?" and "Are you …
Ewing: Congressional Elections 1896-1944, Michigan Law Review
Ewing: Congressional Elections 1896-1944, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS 1896-1944. Cortez A. M. Ewing.
Jessup: The International Problem Of Governing Mankind, John E. Grosboll S.Ed.
Jessup: The International Problem Of Governing Mankind, John E. Grosboll S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of THE INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM OF GOVERNING MANKIND. Phillip C. Jessup.
The Political And Social Factor In Legal Interpretation, Roscoe Pound
The Political And Social Factor In Legal Interpretation, Roscoe Pound
Michigan Law Review
We may think of the task of the legal order as one of maintaining the inner order of a politically organized society. The term "law" is not uncommonly used to include the task and the agencies by which we endeavor to achieve it. Thus it is used (as by sociologists and by the historical jurists) for all social control, and, by those who limit the term to a highly specialized social control through politically organized society, for (1) the legal order, the regime of adjusting relations and ordering conduct by systematic employment of the force of a state (the type …
Libel And Slander-Charge Of Communism As Libel, Robert L. Cardon
Libel And Slander-Charge Of Communism As Libel, Robert L. Cardon
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff a federal official, brought a libel action based on defendant's publication, in 1944, of an article charging that plaintiff had been campaign manager for a Communist candidate in a New York election; had been employed by the Daily Worker; and had caused defendant's removal from a Bronx ration board because of defendant's opposition to left-wing activities connected therewith. Plaintiff contended that the article was libelous in that (1) it charged that he was a Communist; and (2) it charged that he had conspired, in violation of the duties of his office, to oust defendant. Held, the complaint stated …
Spotlight On Congress: A Review Of Six Recent Books, John W. Lederle
Spotlight On Congress: A Review Of Six Recent Books, John W. Lederle
Michigan Law Review
Many books on Congress have appeared recently. Perhaps no period in our history has seen the printing of as many books bearing on Congress. This review is directed to a consideration of six of these which have come out during the last three years. Some of these volumes are broader in scope and deal with other topics than Congress. It will be appreciated that this review is restricted to the subject matter dealing with the legislative branch of government.
The Divided Supreme Court, 1944-1945, C. Herman Pritchett
The Divided Supreme Court, 1944-1945, C. Herman Pritchett
Michigan Law Review
The United States Supreme Court has in recent years been supplying fascinating material for students interested in the interplay of personal and institutional factors in the judicial decision-making process. Contrary to the more restrictive practices of some other legal systems, the traditions of the American judiciary have never insisted that justices sitting en banc should hide the existence of division among themselves behind a facade of pretended unanimity. Justices who dissent from a decision of their brethren have been permitted to say so, and to give their reasons. This practice has had an immeasurably great effect in facilitating the growth …
Political Committee Expenditures And The Hatch Act, John W. Lederle
Political Committee Expenditures And The Hatch Act, John W. Lederle
Michigan Law Review
Democratic governments are rightly concerned about how money is used to influence elections. The oft-quoted proverb, "He who pays the piper calls the tune," contains a large grain of truth. In many countries comprehensive statutory regulation of campaign expenditures may be found; but it is unlikely that any other country can match the variety of experiments which have been indulged in by-the national Congress and the forty-eight state legislatures in the United States.
Italian Administrative Courts Under Fascism, Paul B. Rava
Italian Administrative Courts Under Fascism, Paul B. Rava
Michigan Law Review
Observers not wholly familiar with the administration of the present government of Italy are generally surprised by the fact that the Council of State, the supreme administrative court, is still an operating body after more than eighteen years of blackshirt revolution and domination. It seems strange that a dictator should have preserved this agency, which was established in order to bring justice into public administration, and which rapidly became the principal guardian of individual rights against administrative arbitrariness. One asks how the Council of State can, in a totalitarian state, continue to exercise its functions of administrative court and of …
Niemeyer On Law Without Force, Josef L. Kunz
Niemeyer On Law Without Force, Josef L. Kunz
Michigan Law Review
Whereas Lauterpacht tried to determine the function of law in the international community, Niemeyer investigates the function of politics in international law. His book is on politics, but it is theoretical in its treatment and not political. The book not only represents an ambitious work, but is certainly interesting and stimulating. As to his ideas, Niemeyer derives from Herman Heller, to whom the book is dedicated. Heller's theory of the States is not a legal, but a sociological, a functional theory of the modern, occidental State as it developed since the Renaissance, a theory which stands halfway between Kelsen's "pure …
Should The Power Of The Federal Government Be Increased?, Donald R. Richberg
Should The Power Of The Federal Government Be Increased?, Donald R. Richberg
Michigan Law Review
This question, in its broadest aspect, may call for an opinion as to whether the power of the federal government, delegated and limited by the Constitution, should be enlarged by constitutional amendment. The question, more narrowly construed, may be whether the federal government should extend the exercise of its present, delegated powers over more subjects of regulation and into more detailed controls of American life and work.
The State Legislatures And Unionism: A Survey Of State Legislation Relating To Problems Of Unionization And Collective Bargaining, Russell A. Smith, William J. Delancey
The State Legislatures And Unionism: A Survey Of State Legislation Relating To Problems Of Unionization And Collective Bargaining, Russell A. Smith, William J. Delancey
Michigan Law Review
'There ought to be a law!" So declared labor and its friends in the early days of the New Deal, and the Wagner Act and "little" Wagner acts (the "labor relations acts") were the legislative response. Now, some five years later, with Utopia in labor relations not yet at hand, the hue and cry goes up for still more law, both state and federal. In part this is the typical American reaction to particular irritations and assumes with the usual naiveté that there is a single legislative specific for every isolated ailment. In part it is the equally typical reaction …
Aliens - Deportation - Statutory Construction, William K. Jackson
Aliens - Deportation - Statutory Construction, William K. Jackson
Michigan Law Review
The petitioner was held for deportation under a statute requiring deportation of any alien who at any time after entering the United States is found to have been at the time of entry or to have become thereafter a member of any one of previously enumerated classes of aliens who may be excluded. The circuit court of appeals in denying deportation based its decision on the fact that the evidence was insufficient, since it was not proven that the Communist Party was an organization that believes in or advocates the overthrow by force or violence of the government of the …
Recent Developments In The Deportation Process, Reuben Oppenheimer
Recent Developments In The Deportation Process, Reuben Oppenheimer
Michigan Law Review
The process under which the United States, through the Department of Labor, deports aliens found to be unlawfully in this country is one of the oldest in American administrative law. It is also one of the most interesting, for this process deals almost entirely with persons as contrasted with property, and its development has been largely unimpeded by court decisions.
Constitutional Law - Protection Of Freedom Of Speech Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Jack L. White
Constitutional Law - Protection Of Freedom Of Speech Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Jack L. White
Michigan Law Review
The appellant, a negro member of the Communist Party, was engaged in work as a paid party organizer in Atlanta in 1932. Shortly after leading a hunger march of unemployed he was arrested, and was tried and convicted under a state statute, enacted in the Reconstruction Period, which made criminal "any attempt, by persuasion or otherwise, to induce others to join in any combined resistance to the lawful' authority of the State." At the time of his arrest the appellant had in his possession evidence of his organization activities and also a quantity of party literature, but there was no …
The Non-Recognition Law Of The United States, Kimon A. Doukas
The Non-Recognition Law Of The United States, Kimon A. Doukas
Michigan Law Review
We speak of nations as being equal, independent and sovereign within the fixed confines of their physical boundaries. As aptly stated by our Supreme Court, in the civilized world of today, "Every sovereign State is bound to respect the independence of every other sovereign State, and the courts of one country will not sit in judgment on the acts of the government of another done within its own territory."
Constitutional Law - Validity Of Criminal Syndicalism Statute, Herman Jerome Bloom
Constitutional Law - Validity Of Criminal Syndicalism Statute, Herman Jerome Bloom
Michigan Law Review
The defendant was indicted for assisting in the conduct of a meeting which was called under the auspices of the Community Party, an organization advocating criminal syndicalism. The statute defined criminal syndicalism as "the doctrine which advocates crime, physical violence, sabotage, or any unlawful acts or methods as a means of accomplishing or effecting industrial or political change or revolution," and described a number of offenses, including the presiding at, or the assisting in, the conduct of a meeting of an organization advocating criminal syndicalism as defined in the act. The state court upheld the indictment under a construction of …
The Unicameral Legislature In Nebraska, Lester B. Orfield
The Unicameral Legislature In Nebraska, Lester B. Orfield
Michigan Law Review
It is perhaps not exaggerating to say that no more far-reaching innovation in state government has been adopted in recent years than Nebraska's unicameral legislature. It is an axiom of political science - somewhat modified, to be sure, by the growth of administrative tribunals - that there are three branches of government: legislative, executive and judicial. Nebraska has drastically changed the first of these three by adopting a single-house legislature. This question whether the legislature shall consist of one or two houses has become the chief problem of legislative structure during recent years. The model state constitution drafted by the …
Political Theory And Practice, Everett S. Brown
Political Theory And Practice, Everett S. Brown
Michigan Law Review
A review of THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT. A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. By J. Mark Jacobson, Ph.D.
The Courts, The Press, And The Public, Stuart H. Perry
The Courts, The Press, And The Public, Stuart H. Perry
Michigan Law Review
It was with especial gratification that I accepted this invitation to speak. It is a pleasure to be with you, and it affords me an opportunity to contribute to a discussion of matters that are of great importance to your profession and my own and to the public. Perhaps I should not thus separate myself from your profession. I am still at least nominally a member of the bar, and though it is many years since I last appeared in court I have a keen and sympathetic interest in legal matters and enjoy my contacts with the bench and bar …
Constitutional Law-Municipal Corporations-Police Power
Constitutional Law-Municipal Corporations-Police Power
Michigan Law Review
The defendants circulated, on the streets of Milwaukee, hand bills which set forth the political and economic views of their group. An ordinance made it unlawful for any person "to circulate or distribute any circular, hand bills, cards, posters, dodgers, or other printed or advertising matter, * * * in or upon any sidewalk, street, * * * or other public place, park or ground within the City of Milwaukee." The defendants were arrested and convicted of violating this ordinance. There was no charge that the ordinance was enforced in any unreasonable or discriminatory manner, or that its purpose was …
Review: The Public And Its Government. By Professor Felix Frankfurter, Forrest Revere Black
Review: The Public And Its Government. By Professor Felix Frankfurter, Forrest Revere Black
Michigan Law Review
A Review of THE PUBLIC AND ITS GOVERNMENT By Professor Felix Frankfurter.
Review: Edward Coke, Oracle Of The Law
Review: Edward Coke, Oracle Of The Law
Michigan Law Review
A Review of EDWARD COKE, ORACLE OF THE LAW By Hastings Lyon and Herman Block.
The United States And The League Of Nations, Clarence A. Berdahl
The United States And The League Of Nations, Clarence A. Berdahl
Michigan Law Review
With the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles by the necessary number of Powers on January 10, 1920, there came into existence that new experiment in international cooperation and government known as the League of Nations. It has grown from a membership of 43 states in 1920 to 55 in 1929. Including Great Powers and Small Powers, states of Europe, Asia, Africa, South, Central, and even North America, it can in no sense of the word be properly characterized as a European league merely, or another Holy Alliance, but is truly a world organization. Only Afghanistan, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, Russia, …
The Juridical Nature Of The State, Sir Paul Vinogradoff
The Juridical Nature Of The State, Sir Paul Vinogradoff
Michigan Law Review
Of all varieties of social co-operation, one dominates the others. It is the State, and a fundamental problem in every system of law consists in settling the legal relations between the State and its members- both the individuals and the juridical persons.
Judges In The British Cabinet And The Struggle Which Led To Their Exclusion After 1806, Arthur Lyon Cross
Judges In The British Cabinet And The Struggle Which Led To Their Exclusion After 1806, Arthur Lyon Cross
Michigan Law Review
Among the anomalies in the queer and devious course of Eng- £ lish constitutional progress few have been more striking than the number of reforms which have been due to the Conservatives.. One of no little significance was brought about during that period of political stagnation-the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. This was the exclusion of judges from the Cabinet, as the result of a political struggle in which the forces of opposition, though temporarily defeated, formulated a policy which was destined henceforth to prevail.