Watson's Jeffersonian magazine [serial] . uce the States of the Union to a mere lot of naughtychildren ivho must he called up and birched in public, when-ever corporation lawyers combine to nullify the laws of theState to whose charter their client owes its life. The astounding spectacle is presented of nearly one-half ofthe States of the Union challenged in their right to regulatetheir domestic concerns, halted by injunctions, rendered power-less to perform their constitutional functions, by corporationlawyers Avho have tempted Federal Judges to add another prov-ince to the broad dominions wh
Watson's Jeffersonian magazine [serial] . uce the States of the Union to a mere lot of naughtychildren ivho must he called up and birched in public, when-ever corporation lawyers combine to nullify the laws of theState to whose charter their client owes its life. The astounding spectacle is presented of nearly one-half ofthe States of the Union challenged in their right to regulatetheir domestic concerns, halted by injunctions, rendered power-less to perform their constitutional functions, by corporationlawyers Avho have tempted Federal Judges to add another prov-ince to the broad dominions which they have already invadedand conquered. What sort of chance for adoption would the Constitution of1787 have had in New York and Virginia, if Alexander Hamiltonand James Madison had admitted that the sovereign States couldat any time be made the victims of corporation greed andreduced, at the whim of corporation lawyers, to the attitudeof supplicants, humbly pleading before a Federal Judge for theprivilege of enforcing their own laws?. IS TUIS • GOVERNMENT OF TUE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE?Drawn by Gordon 032 WATSONS JEFFERSONIAN MAGAZINE To this shameful degradation have the States been broughtdown. Federal Judges, who were corporation lawyers beforethey became Judges, are halting the sovereign States, reducingthem to the station of mere private trespassers, and retainingthem, by ever ready injunctions, from the exercise of govern-mental powers. Insolent corporations and usurping judiciaryare moving step by step to a a free people cannotendure. Sooner or later, some State, bullied, badgered andenjoined beyond the limits of human forbearance, will detnaiulof its Governor the same stuhiorn courage which in George sternly warned the Federal Government and hotly defiedthe Federal Courts! Here of late, Ave have seen the rapid growth of a legal doc-trine never before heard of anywhere on this earth. Ingeniouscorporation lawyers have made
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