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Taxation; The Police Power; Government by Commission; Noxious Trades, Signs, etc.; Modern Extensions of Police Power; Pure Food and Drug Laws; Prohibition Laws; Oleomargarine Laws; Examinations for Professions; Christian Science and Osteopathy; Trading Stamps and Department Stores; Usury Laws; Negotiable Instrument Laws; Bills of Lading and Warehouse Receipts; Sales in Bulk; Intestate Succession; Laws for Protection of Debtors; Mechanics' Lien Laws; Mortgage Foreclosures; Nuisances; The Buying of Futures; Tips and Commissions; Weights and Measures; Laws Against Middlemen.
VIII. REGULATION OF RATES AND PRICES
Laws Fixing the Rate of Wages; Wages in Public Work; Logic of Rate Regulation; The Granger Cases; Theory of Rate Regulation; Regulation by the States; Constitutional Difficulties of Rate Regulation; The Railway Rate Act of 1910; The Long and Short Haul Clause.
IX. TRUSTS AND MONOPOLIES
The Trusts at Common Law; The Sherman Act; State Laws Against Trusts; Federal Incorporation; Other Remedies of the States; Class Legislation and Organized Labor; Recent Decisions and Laws Against Trusts; Constitutional Provisions Against Trusts; Growth and Decline of Anti-Trust Legislation; Best Remedy for Trusts; Only Three Courses Possible; Centralization and Federal Control.
X. CORPORATIONS
History of Trading Corporations; Two Theories of Corporation Law; The Massachusetts Commissioners' Report; The Payment Up of Stock; The Massachusetts Law; The "Business Corporation" Act; Corporation Laws of All the States; Publicity and Other Remedies; Laws Regulating "Holding" Companies and Stock Ownership by Corporations; Corporations of Other States; States May Exclude; Summary of the Trust Question; Public Service Companies.
XI. LABOR LAWS
English Law Does not Enforce the Labor Contract; Freedom to Trade and Labor; Sources of Reform Legislation; Constitutional Difficulties; Minimum Wage Laws; The Rate of Wages in Public Work; Equal Wages for Women; The New York Constitutional Amendment; Hours of Labor Laws for Men; Hours of Labor Laws for Women; Prohibited Employments to Women; Hours of Labor of Children; Laws of All the States To-day; Hours of Labor in Factories, etc.; Child Labor Prohibited; Hours of Labor in Mines; Age Limit for Child Labor, Dangerous and Immoral Trades, Protection of Young Girls, Labor in Mines, Hours of Labor in Peculiar Trades, The Constitutional Difficulty, Farms and Domestic Labor, Continental Legislation, Sanitary Restrictions on Female Labor, Sweatshop Laws, The Factory Acts, Employers' Liability, Anti-Truck Legislation, Factory Stores and Dwellings, Benefit Funds and Compulsory Insurance, The R��gime of Contract, Compulsory Labor and Peonage, Statutes Against Intimidation, Blacklists, Picketing, Armed Guards, Political and Militia Duties, Miscellaneous Matters, Profit-Sharing, etc., Discrimination Against Union Labor, Twenty Years of Labor Legislation, Foreign Labor Legislation, Employers' Liability, Old Age Pensions, Minimum Wage Laws, Co-operation and Profit-Sharing, Arbitration Laws, Labor Legislation in Europe.
XII. COMBINATIONS IN LABOR MATTERS
The Law of Combination and Conspiracy, Intent the Test, The English Conspiracy Act, Modern Reforms Desired by Organized Labor, Boycotts and Blacklists, Intimidation, Interference with Political Rights, The Oklahoma Labor Code, European Law of Combination.
XIII. MILITARY AND MOB LAW, AND THE RIGHT TO ARMS
The Right to Civil Law, Martial Law, Military Law, The Right to Arms, Military Service, The Struggle Against Martial Rule in England, Standing Armies, Mobs, Riots, Lynching, The Use of the Army in Labor Troubles,
XIV. OF POLITICAL RIGHTS
The Right to Assembly and Free Elections; The Suffrage, 28; The Force Bills; Interference with Voting; Bribery and Corrupt Practices; Lobbying Acts; The Form of the Ballot; Direct Primaries and Nominations; The Distrust of Representative Government; Corrupt Elections Laws; Direct Election of U.S. Senators; Women's Suffrage; Municipal Elections, The Initiative, Referendum, and Recall; The Judicial System.
XV. OTHER LEGISLATION AFFECTING INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
Freedom of Speech and of the Press; The "Unfair" List; Prohibition of Anarchistic Propaganda; The Right to Privacy; Search Warrants and Self-Incrimination; Religious Rights.
XVI. LEGISLATION CONCERNING PERSONAL AND RACIAL RIGHTS
The Race Question; Races Capable of Citizenship; The War Amendments and Their Effect; The Negro's Social and Property Rights; The Privileged Classes.
XVII. SEX LEGISLATION, MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
A Woman Is a Citizen; Her Right to Labor and Property; Marriage, Divorce, and Children; Women in Politics and Education; Reform of Divorce Procedure; Uniformity of Law in Divorce; The Secular Law in Sexual Matters; Marriage a Contract; The "Single Standard" and Free Divorce; Control of Marriage by the State; Recent Legislation; Radical Statutes in Sexual Matters; Legal Separation; The Married Woman's Privileges; The "Age of Consent"; Female Suffrage by Property-Owners; Kidnapping, Curfew, Rape; Statistics of Divorce; Industrial Liberty of Women; Female Labor in England and U.S.A.
XVIII. CRIMINAL LAW AND POLICE
Common Law Prevails; New Crimes and Penalties; Self-Regardant Actions; Reform in Punishment; Procedure in the Courts; Lynching and Mob Law; Interstate Commerce in Liquor, etc.; Physicians' Privilege; Prohibition Laws; City Ordinances; Juvenile Courts and Laws; Present Needs.
XIX. OF THE GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTION, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, AND THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
Government by Commission; Taxes, Debt, and Franchises; Municipal Socialism; Internal Improvements; State Farms and Forests; Education; Taxation and State Aid; Present Questions.
XX. FINAL
The Form of Our Statutes; Need of Authorized Revisions; Reforms Recommended; Indexing and Arrangement; Need of a Parliamentary Draughtsman; Recommendations of the