Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEBATE OF WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, AT 3 P. M. IN U. 16.Subject: Resolved, that the Contract System of Prison Labor should be abolished...
...contract system defeats the real purpose of penal institutions, the repression of crime by the reformation of the criminals.- Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor (1886), pp. 36, 37, 88 et. seq., 134-136; Report of the United States Labor Bureau (1886); Report of Charles F. Peck, New York commissioner, pp. 312; also...
...Contract Labor Act." Ibid...
...item of $80 was due to a flaw in the contract with a railway company. In a case where one party to a contract is ignorant of the provisions of the contract is ignorant of the provisions of the contract, would the average man say that the ignorant party is careful or careless? If careless, is the carelessness real or only "apparent...
...failures and mistakes,' he keenly remarks, and it is as true today as it ever was, 'has been in no small degree the lack of knowledge of and care for the fundamental question of Law.' It is a shrewd remark that 'the constitutional law as to the obligation of contracts made by legislation is still in embryo, despite the numberless decisions upon it.' The merits and the true bearing of the excellent proposal to bring the Cabinet officers on the floor of Congress are well recognized and stated. The limitations upon the power of courts, in judging of the constitutionality...