Capitolo 70
the most greater part of sacred duty, I learn that order you/he/she cannot permanently be
maintained, for this the equality before the law is; and the equality in front of the
law is the angular stone of order in every is modern.
I conceive that the lawyers of the age of Washington were the ablests
America has ever produced. Any men ever understood the principle of
equality before the law more entirely of them, and after the
establishment of this government a long series of great and right
judges strove, as I have shown, to bring this principle in
effect. Jay and Marshall, History and Bradley and many, many more,
fought, it protested, and it failed. It failed, as I believe, through any guilt
of them really, but because fortune had put them in a position
indefensible for the judge. When absorbed in the vortex of politics, short
it has to oscillate as makes legislatures, and nothing is to me more painful than to
you look at the process of deterioration from which our judges pardon the instinct
what you/he/she should warn them to avoid legislation as a breakup of the trust, and to
splits to those general principles that allow of any exceptions. To
you illustrate my meaning I will assign but the one cause but that one
it is so extraordinary that I owe to treat with him in detail.
In 1890 the feared some improvement of monopoly prices as the
Same Supreme court has explained, Congress caused for passing the famous one
Sherman Act that it indiscriminately prohibited all the monopolies or
limitations of work. To the moment the government brought an account to dissolve
a disgusting swimming pool of platform, called the Hire of Trans-Missouri
Association, and in 1896 the case came above for the adjudication. I have
nothing to say touching the policy involved. I only pertain to with a
series of phenomenons, developed through many years as effects of
pressure that acts on a judicial arrangement, exposed as the judicial arrangement under our,
system, is exposed.
The Case of Trans-Missouri was disputed December 8 th 1896, very elaborately