Due Process of Law and the Equal Protection of the Laws; A Treatise Based, in the Main, on the Cases in Which the Supreme Court of the United States H (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... the former less serious to corporations. On the other hand, the threat of extinction or ouster is not monstrous, and yet is likely to, achieve the result with corporations, while it would be extravagant as applied to men. Hence, this difference is justifiable. Standard Oil Co. v. Tennessee ex rel. Cates, 217 U. S. 413. 572. Appeal by government in criminal case. Congress could, by the act of March 2, 1907, authorize the government to bring up a criminal case from a Federal Circuit Court to the Supreme Court when a demurrer to an indictment has been sustained, although the same privilege is denied the accused when the indictment is sustained, --even assuming that the United States is bound to afford the equal protection of the laws to persons within its jurisdiction. The Supreme Court has decided that the right of appeal is not essential to due process of law. Even if the explicit clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, forbidding a state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws, can be said to apply to the United States, it can have no broader meaning when so applied, than when applied to the states. Even assuming that Congress may not discriminate in its legislation, it certainly has the power of classification, and the act in question is well within such power. United States v. Heinze, 218 U. S. 532. 573. Classification of prisoners committing assaults. Singling out convicts serving life sentences in a state prison as proper subjects for the imposition of the death penalty, as is done by the California penal code, in case they shall, with malice aforethought, commit an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument, or by any means of force likely to produce great...