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1 Development of Law as Illustrated by the Decisions Relating to the Police Power of the State 1900

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PROCEEDINGS


                            OF THE

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY


      HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.


VOL. XXXIX.             SEPTEMBER,  1900.               No. 163.


THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAW AS ILLUSTRATED BY
     THE   DECISIONS RELATING TO THE POLICE
                  POWER OF THE STATE.
                    BY W. G. HASTINGS, ESQ.,
                        OF WILDER, NEBRASKA.

The Crowned Essay for which the Prize of two thousand dollars was awarded, on
   June 19, 1900, from the Henry M. Phillips Prize Essay Fund, by the Committee
   of judges appointed by the American Philosophital Society held at Philadel-
   phia for Promoting Useful Knowleke.

                       (Read June 19, 1900.)

        Es ist an einem andern Orte dargelegt dass das Recht seinem
        Inhalt nicht aus der Entwicklung des Rechtsbegriffes, sondern aus
        dern Leben empfingt ftir welches es gilt. Dieses Leben ist daher
        die rechtsbildende Kraft.-Stein, Handbuch, S. 4r.
        Platon remercioit le ciel de ce qu'il 6toit nd du temps de
        Socrate; et moi je lui rends grhces de cequ'il m'a fait naitre dans le
        gouvernment, oit je vis, et de ce qu'il a voulu que j'obisse, a ceux
        qu il m'a fait aimer.-Montesquieu, L'Esprit des Lois, Preface.

                         CHAPTER I.
    INTRODUCTION   OF THE  TERM  THROUGH EARLY FEDERAL
                           DECISIONS.
  The  Police Power  is a well recognized if not yet fully defined
department  of constitutional law. It is also the newest one  of
anything near equal importance.   The  1898 edition of Bouvier's
Law   Dicionary  says that the law on this subject is all of recent
growth, and most of it is in the last half of the nineteenth century.
It could not consistently say otherwise. The  work  as originally
published in 1839 did not define the phrase Police Power  nor
even contain it. The  thirteenth edition in x867 did not have it.
It was only in  1883 that this standard dictionary of law first ex-
   Copyrighted, 1900, by W. G. Hastings.
   PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXIX. 163. X. PRINTED SEPT. 22, 1900.

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