Pennsylvania Bar Association. Meeting. Report of the ... Annual Meeting ..., Volume 33The Association, 1927 |
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action active Admission admitted adopted Allegheny American applicant appointed attorney Bank Bar Association Berks Bldg Board born called Chairman CHARLES Chester City Civil Committee common Conference consideration Constitution County Bar Court criminal Dauphin death December defendant delegates died District EDWARD elected Erie Fayette February FRANK Franklin GEORGE GEORGE H Harrisburg HARRY HENRY interest JAMES January JOHN JOSEPH Judge Judicial July June justice Lancaster Land Title Building lawyer Legal Aid legislation Legislature March matter meeting November October organization passed Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia Pittsburgh practice present President profession provides question Reading received recommendations referred representative resolution ROBERT rules SAMUEL Secretary SMITH street student suggested Supreme Court THOMAS tion Trust Building Union United WALTER Washington WILLIAM York
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Page 343 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 335 - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Page 327 - The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are :• first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.
Page 345 - WHEREAS the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom...
Page 346 - They are autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
Page 347 - Every self-governing member of the Empire is now the master of its destiny. In fact, if not always in form, it is subject to no compulsion whatever.
Page 97 - And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others.
Page 348 - A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Page 346 - The Committee are of opinion that nothing would be gained by attempting to lay down a Constitution for the British Empire. Its widely scattered parts have very different characteristics, very different histories, and are at very different stages of evolution; while, considered as a whole, it defies classification and bears no real resemblance to any other political organization which now exists or has ever yet been tried.
Page 520 - States and maintain representative government; to advance the science of jurisprudence : to promote the administration of justice...