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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 |