and THE EQUAL PROTECTION of the LAWS A Treatise Based, in the Main, on the Cases in Which By HANNIS TAYLOR Hon. LL. D. of the Universities of Edinburgh and Dublin and of eight Author of "The Jurisdiction and Procedure of the Supreme Court of the CHICAGO The author dedicates this book to his son HANNIS JOSEPH TAYLOR recently admitted to the bar, and through him to the new generation of American lawyers who will be called upon to defend the ancient constitutional guaranties imbedded in "the law of the land" against the persistent effort now in progress to substitute for them a bureaucratic system based on the deadly assumption that this is no longer a thorough government of law as contradistinguished to a government of functionaries."' Quamquam te, Marce fili, Cari sunt pa rentes, cari liberi, propinqui, familiares, sed omnes omnium caritates patria una complexa est, pro qua quis bonus dubitet mortem oppetere, si ei sit profuturus? Cicero, De Officiis, I, i, xvii. |