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Copyright, 1916,

By COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Set up and electrotyped. Published August, 1916.

CONTENTS

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I.[MAGNA CARTA][1]
Address before the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York at its celebration of the seven-hundredth anniversary of Magna Carta, Albany, June 15, 1915.
II.[THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT][27]
Response to the toast, "The Mayflower Compact," at the twenty-first annual banquet of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of New York, held at the Hotel St. Regis, New York, November 23, 1915.
III.[CONSTITUTIONAL MORALITY][42]
Address before the Pennsylvania State Bar Association at its eighteenth annual meeting, held at Cape May, New Jersey, June 25, 1912.
IV.[THE ELEVENTH AMENDMENT][87]
Address before the New York State Bar Association at its thirty-first annual meeting, held in New York, January 25, 1908.
V.[CRITICISM OF THE COURTS][130]
Read as a supplement to the report of a committee of the New York State Bar Association submitted at the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Association, held at Utica, January 24, 1913.
VI.[GRADUATED OR PROGRESSIVE TAXATION][159]
Address before the National Civic Federation at its annual meeting, held in New York, December 13, 1906.
VII.[THE DUTY OF CITIZENSHIP][178]
Address as temporary chairman of the New York Republican State Convention, Saratoga Springs, September 25, 1912.
VIII.[NOMINATING CONVENTIONS][219]
Remarks before the Committee on Suffrage of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York, Albany, June 16, 1915.
IX.[CATHOLIC PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS][247]
Remarks at the dedication of the Roman Catholic parochial school at Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, September 6, 1915.
X.[THE FRANCE-AMERICA COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK][261]
Remarks as presiding officer at a luncheon given in honor of the members of the Anglo-French Credit and Finance Commission at the Hotel Knickerbocker, New York, October 1, 1915.
[INDEX][271]

MAGNA CARTA[1]