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...refuse such offspring any legal recognition. As early, however, as 1575, one finds an English statute providing that, when a bastard was born in any parish, the local justices of the peace might order the child to be kept by the public authorities and compel either the mother or the reputed father to contribute to its support. The Norwegian law is today considered the most enlightened legislation on the subject. It gives the child the right to be supported according to the economic situation of the more favorably placed parent...
...question before the high court was: Has one of the Houses of Congress power to compel the attendance of witnesses; and if so, has it the power to compel witnesses in such an investigation as this? A. I. Vorys and John B. Phillips represented Mr. Daugherty. They argued that the Senate is a legislative body; its power to force witness is restricted to impeachment cases, election contests and cases in which attempts are made to expel members; if there was power to compel witness to testify with a view to gaining information on which to base legislation, it rested...
...Attorney General Stone. He argued that Congressional investigations could legitimately make investigations as a basis for legislation, and that it was to be presumed, without avowed statement of purpose, that the Senate had made its inquiry for legislative ends; the: investigation was entirely proper and the power to compel testimony resided in the investigating committee...
...sympathy for Mme. Simone. She will bewilder him a little and probably annoy him. Only if he concedes the virtue of her schooling will he enjoy the lessons she has learned so well. Of France and the Frenchman's Theatre she is a cardinal example. As such she will compel intelligent attention...
...Soviet Russia," he scoffed, "could never agree with the fundamental aim of the League to consolidate the present status of State borders; and we would never permit the League to compel us to submit to arbitration the vital interests of the Soviet Union, as there cannot exist impartial arbitration between the Soviet economic system and capitalistic society...