Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma State Bar Association, Volume 21The Association, 1927 - Bar associations List of members in each volume. |
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... consider- ing the question as to whether or not the power of the Supreme Court of the United States itself should not be curtailed . They believe that the Supreme Court of the United States should not have the right to declare an act of ...
... consider- ing the question as to whether or not the power of the Supreme Court of the United States itself should not be curtailed . They believe that the Supreme Court of the United States should not have the right to declare an act of ...
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... considering those most important propositions of a uniform system of laws throughout the United States . That is one reason , gentlemen , why I think we have not been able to secure a member of the Executive Com- mittee in all these ...
... considering those most important propositions of a uniform system of laws throughout the United States . That is one reason , gentlemen , why I think we have not been able to secure a member of the Executive Com- mittee in all these ...
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... consider- ation of the proposal to empower the courts of this State to make their own rules of procedure is worthy of serious consideration . Within the last two months the president of this As- sociation received a communication from ...
... consider- ation of the proposal to empower the courts of this State to make their own rules of procedure is worthy of serious consideration . Within the last two months the president of this As- sociation received a communication from ...
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... considers best fitted for judicial positons . As to those judicial positions re- quiring a state - wide vote the law could well provide for a method of expression by the whole bar at large . As to judicial positions in the county or ...
... considers best fitted for judicial positons . As to those judicial positions re- quiring a state - wide vote the law could well provide for a method of expression by the whole bar at large . As to judicial positions in the county or ...
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... consider just what that means . A state consists of a group of people occupying a definite territory , possessing a political organization called a government , having permanence and possessing sovereignty . Sovereignty is the chief ...
... consider just what that means . A state consists of a group of people occupying a definite territory , possessing a political organization called a government , having permanence and possessing sovereignty . Sovereignty is the chief ...
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Page 105 - ... speaks not only in the same words, but with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States. Any other rule of construction would abrogate the judicial character of this court, and make it the mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day.
Page 119 - But if the government be national with regard to the operation of its powers, it changes its aspect again when we contemplate it in relation to the extent of its powers. The idea of a national...
Page 119 - The State Legislatures will not apply for alterations but with a view to increase their own powers. The National Legislature will be the first to perceive and will be most sensible to the necessity of amendments, and ought also to be empowered, whenever two thirds of each branch should concur to call a Convention.
Page 100 - The American Bar Association is of the opinion that graduation from a law school should not confer the right of admission to the bar, and that every candidate should be subjected to an examination by public authority to determine his fitness.
Page 113 - I hold it for a fundamental point, that an individual independence of the states is utterly irreconcilable with the idea of an aggregate sovereignty.
Page 190 - All papers read before the Association shall be lodged with the Secretary. The Annual Address of the President, the Reports of Committees, and all proceedings at the Annual Meeting shall be printed; but no other address made or paper read or presented shall be printed, except by order of the Committee on Publications.
Page 106 - We, the people of the United States," do ordain and establish the following Constitution, — so runs the majestic and vital instrument. It contains provisions for its own emendation. When the people will, they may set it aside, and put in place of it one wholly different ; and no other nation can intervene. But while it continues, it, and the laws made normally...
Page 189 - This constitution may be altered or amended by a vote of three-fourths of the members present at any annual meeting, but no such change shall be made at any meeting at which less than fifty members are present.
Page 185 - Its object shall be to advance the science of jurisprudence, promote the administration of justice and uniformity of legislation throughout the Union, uphold the honor of the profession of the law, and encourage cordial intercourse among the members of the American Bar.
Page 120 - Its principal purpose was not the distribution of power between the United States and the States, but a reservation to the people of all powers not granted. The preamble of the Constitution declares who framed it, "we the people of the United States...