The Anti-Trust Act and the Supreme Court. E-book. Formato PDF William Howard Taft   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is of the highest importance, therefore, to consider, as a preliminary basis for our discus sion of the statute, what the common law was in respect to restraints of trade — that is, its limitation upon the right of property and the right of free contract, and upon the right of one to dispose of his labor. Just what use should be made of the common — law rules on these subjects in giving effect to the statute we can determine later.

The Presidency Its Duties, Its Powers, Its Opportunities, and Its Limitations: Three Lectures. E-book. Formato PDF William Howard Taft   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The University of Virginia is indebted for the establishment of the barbour-page Foundation to the Wisdom and generosity of Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page, of Washington, D. C. In 1907, Mrs. Page donated to the University the sum of the annual income of Which is to be used in securing each session the delivery before the Univer siry of a series of not less than three lectures by some distinguished man of letters or of science. The conditions of the Foundation require that the barbour-page lectures for each session be not less than three in number; that they be delivered by a specialist in some.

Our Chief Magistrate: And His Powers. E-book. Formato PDF William Howard Taft   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The six chapters included in this book were originally delivered by Mr. Taft at Columbia University, during the winter session of 1915 — 16, as the Blumenthal Lectures, under the general title: The Presidency, Its Powers, Duties, Responsibilities and Limitations. With this title, in accordance with the usual custom, they were also presently announced by the Columbia University Press as a forthcoming publication. Since a similar title had already been given to a course of three lectures delivered by Mr. Taft at the University of Virginia, in the academic year 1914-15, the publication of which had been undertaken by Charles Scribner's Sons, the title of this volume has been changed, at the author's suggestion, to its present form.