Municipal Government
- Municipal government at the time of the Revolution [249]
- Changes in municipal government after the adoption of the Constitution [250]
- The municipality a creature of the state legislature [252]
- Hostility of the courts to municipal self-government [254]
- The attitude of the courts made state interference necessary [255]
- Abuses of legislative interference [256]
- Constitutional provisions limiting the power of the legislature to interfere [261]
- Effort to establish municipal self-government [265]
- Limitation of the power of the majority in constitutions granting municipal self-government [266]
- The object of home rule provisions largely defeated by judicial interpretation [268]
- Limitation of the taxing and borrowing power of home rule cities [272]
- Origin of the constitutional limitations of municipal indebtednes [273]
- Fear of municipal democracy [277]
- Municipal ownership as a means of taxing the propertyless class [280]
- Why our state governments have not been favorable to municipal democracy [285]
- Limitation of the power of the majority the main cause of municipal corruption [288]
Individual Liberty and the Constitution
- The eighteenth-century conception of liberty negative [291]
- Influence of the Revolution upon the conception of liberty [293]
- Why present-day conservatives advocate the eighteenth century view of liberty [295]
- Liberty to the framers meant the limitation of the power of the majority [297]
- The doctrine of vested rights [299]
- Survival of the old view of liberty in our legal literature [301]
Individual Liberty and the Economic System
- The economic conditions under which the old view of liberty originated [304]
- Influence of the industrial revolution upon the liberty of the worker [306]
- The laissez faire policy [308]
- Protection has been maintained as a class policy [312]
- The need of protection to labor [316]
- Limitation of governmental powers in the interest of the capitalis [318]
- The policy of the Supreme Court a factor in corrupting the state governments [325]