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I. MAGNA CARTA1
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