Lanterna Rally

Author: Lucius Polk McGehee

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 9781330394168

Excerpt from Due Process of Law Under the Federal Constitution The plan of the series to which this volume belongs offers a happy opportunity to trace the application of certain fundamental ideas throughout the extended field of American law. By isolating "due process of law" and devoting to it a separate "study" the history and elements of the conception, its relation to other constitutional guaranties, and the part it has performed and is still performing in the upbuilding of a system of individual rights should emerge more clearly than is possible in a general treatise on constitutional law. If I have failed to effect in some measure these objects, the), fault is wholly my own. No richer or more interesting field could offer itself to the student or practitioner. The object of this study is to present the views of the subject entertained by the United States Supreme Court, upon which devolves the final decision of questions of due process both in proceedings by the federal authorities and in those by the state. According!, the material of this volume is primarily the decisions of that court. An effort has been made to include all the decisions of the court through 199 U. S. Decisions of other jurisdictions have been used only as far as seemed necessary to round out, to the best of my judgment, the discussions of the questions involved from an historical or logical point of view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.