A Review of President Wilson's Administration by Hannis Taylor, a Life-Long Democrat: Who Assails Mr. Wilson as an Extreme Federalist; As a Defamer of ... Revolutionist With Monarchical Tendenc
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After the abolition of the two Democratic institutions just mentioned, Mr. Wilson resolved to fill the vacuum not only by the revival of the King's Speech but by the introduction into American politics Of Court Favorites, an institution imported into England from Scotland by James I, a monarch often spoken Of as the intellectual and political progenitor Of the dictator under whom we now live. Following in the path of his great progenitor, Mr. Wilson drove from his cabinet, at a time when they were most needed by the country, the two dominating minds that refused to bow to his insolent and Self-seeking dictatorship. Thus the way was cleared for the com pletion of that system Of political absolutism under which our Government is now carried on by a group of Obscure and inefficient individuals - Mr. Wilson's per sonal creations, dependent ministers, who are mere agents Of the King's will.
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A Treatise on International Public Law (Classic Reprint)
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During the last fifty years international law, as a living and growing organism, has passed through a more marked and rapid development than in any other single epoch inits entire history. Within that time the awakened conscience of the world has drawn the states composing the family of nations into a closer concert, which has been active in its efiorts to improve the existing system of international relations through a reexamination and restatement of the rules by Which they are regulated. On its scientific side, this move ment has been promoted by a new school of publicists, repre senting nearly every nationality, Whose tireless investigations into every branch of the subject have assumed the systematic form of corporate thought under the guiding hand of the In stitute of International Law. On its practical side, this move ment has been applying the fruits of that kind of research and reflection to the solution of the vital questions presented in rapid succession to the series of international congresses and conferences Which began at Paris in 1856 and ended at The Hague in 1899. When the records of the proceedings of those notable assemblies are read as a connected Whole, it is impossible not to hear the outcry for a higher and more stable international life to be based upon some kind of a code more precise and definite than that embodied in existing rules, and for some kind of an international tribunal With a juris diction more comprehensive than that usually vested in vol untary courts of arbitration. Whether or no such an ideal is attainable, is purely a tentative question to be solved only by patient and persistent efforts made in the light of actual experience. The h0pe of even partial success rests not upon the Utopian dream that the passions and self-interest of mankind will grow less acute, but upon the fact that as nations become more perfectly organized they perceive that stability, comfort and economy may be promoted by a transi tion from the reign of arms to the reign of law.
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A Memorial: In Behalf of the Architect of Our Federal Constitution, Pelatiah Webster of Philadelphia, Penn (Classic Reprint)
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To the Congress of the United States:
The purpose of this memorial is twofold: first, to place in the hands of Congress the data for a new and pivotal chapter in the history of the Constitution that will impress upon succeeding generations the all-important fact that every basic principle which differentiates our existing federal system from all that have preceded it was a part of a single invention struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of one man; second, to press upon Congress the long neglected duty of honoring, by an appropriate monument, the memory of an American statesman and patriot who has made a larger personal contribution to the science of government than any other one individual in the history of mankind. From the data thus presented it clearly appears that among our nation-builders Pelatiah Webster stands second to Washington alone. All the world understands in a vague and general way that certain path-breaking principles entered into the structure of our second federal constitution of 1789 which differentiate it from all other systems of federal government that have preceded it. M. de Tocqueville gave formal expression to that understanding when he said: "This Constitution, which may at first be confounded with federal constitutions that have preceded it, rests in truth upon a wholly novel theory which may he considered a great discovery in modern political science. In the confederations that preceded the American Constitution of 1789, the allied states, for a common object, agreed to obey the injunctions of a federal government; but they reserved to themselves the right of ordaining and enforcing the execution of the laws of the Union.
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Hannis Taylor was an American lawyer, scholar, and diplomat.
Background
He was born in New Bern, N. C. in 1851, the son of Susan (Stevenson) and Richard Nixon Taylor, merchant. He was the grandson of Mary (Hannis) and William Taylor, who had emigrated before the Revolution from Paisley, Scotland, to North Carolina.
Education
He attended Lovejoy's school at Raleigh, Dr. Wilson's school in Alamance County, and in 1867 entered the University of North Carolina, from which he withdrew at the end of a year because of his father's financial reverses. He began the study of law in an office at New Bern and after the removal of his family in 1869 to Mobile, Ala. , continued the study in that city in the offices of Anderson and Bond.
Career
Admitted to the bar in 1870 he practised at Mobile until 1892, achieving prominence in his profession as solicitor for Baldwin County, as counsel in certain well-known cases (such as the Louisiana Lottery Case, Ex parte Rapier, 143 United States, 110, which was argued before the United States Supreme Court), and as president of the Alabama Bar Association (1890 - 91).
He was appointed by President Grover Cleveland on Apr. 8, 1893, American minister to Spain. His four years at Madrid were critical ones for Spanish-American relations, and he seems to have conducted the many difficult negotiations entrusted to him with credit. He inherited such troublesome controversies as the settlement following the exclusion of missionaries from the Caroline Islands, and the Mora claim for indemnity for confiscations by the Cuban government which dated from the early seventies and which was settled in 1895 largely through Taylor's efforts.
After the termination of the commercial reciprocity agreement with Spain by the passage of the tariff act of 1894, he obtained preferential treatment for certain American exports to Cuba and Puerto Rico. The outbreak of further disorders in Cuba in 1895 led to friction between the two governments. Taylor protested the arrests of numerous American citizens or the confiscation of their property by Cuban authorities. His negotiations were often successful, as when in 1895 the Spanish government expressed regret that a gunboat off the Cuban coast had fired on the American ship Alliança; and when Americans on the Competitor, condemned to be executed for landing arms in Cuba, were granted a new trial.
After his return from Madrid Taylor turned to the practice of his profession, with headquarters in Washington, and to scholarship. In 1902 he served as special counsel for the United States before the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, and in 1903 was junior American counsel before the Alaska Boundary Tribunal. He lectured on legal subjects in several Washington institutions, George Washington University, Georgetown University, and National University, served in 1906-07 as associate editor of the United States Law Review, and wrote prolifically.
His first important work, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution (2 vols. , 1889 - 98), brought him wide recognition as a student of legal institutions. The book was, however, marred by certain defects, such as a tendency to digress, reliance upon questionable authorities, and consequent inaccuracies. He occasionally invited criticism by defending a thesis generally recognized as untenable, as when, in The Science of Jurisprudence (1908) and in The Origin and Growth of the American Constitution (1911), he credited Pelatiah Webster with virtual joint authorship of the federal Constitution; this thesis he had already stated in his To The Congress of the United States: A Memorial in Behalf of the Architect of Our Federal Constitution, Pelatiah Webster.
In his vitriolic pamphlet, A Review of President Wilson's Administration, he announced that although he had supported Wilson in 1912 he would vote for Hughes in 1916.