A brief study of the drafting of the United States Constitution.

A survey of the legal status of women in countries around the world.

Includes over two hundred plates illustrating the police at work and early police stations.

Extra-illustrated volumes with tipped-in engraved portraits and autograph letters of 19th-century American political figures. Letters are cataloged individually and can be found by a search of the book's call number.

Speech delivered in the Senate condemning the Southern expansion of slavery and the force used in compelling Kansas to be a slave state. In the course of the speech, Sumner ridicules South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler.

"A brief review of its origin, development and merits and practical discussions on actual conduct of jury trials, together with a consideration of constitutional provisions and other cognate subjects of importance."--T.p.

The author examines the correlation between poverty and crime in the late 19th century and recommends resolving the problems through prevention, reformation, and extinction.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

"This book resumes the discussion of crime, though on a different plan, at the point where my book, 'Sidelights on criminal matters' ended."--Author's preface.

This book consists of eight chapters and contains an examination of women's legal status in the areas of protective labor legislation for women and children; minimum wage laws; mothers' pensions; the property rights of married women; child ...