1907 "Uniformity of Legislation": Paper Read Before the Mississippi Bar Assoc.

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"The integrity of the States is the integrity of each State; with the disappearance of the States, the nation would soon cease to exist, and is should be the duty of every lover of his country to work within his State for that State, and for the laws of each State as far as necessary or feasible to be uniform with the laws of every other State. The functions of the National Government should never be so exercised as to interfere with the domestic concerns of the States, and the States should not surrender, even tacitly, any part of their right to legislate for themselves...but should oppose by every means in their power the encroachments of Federal legislation."
"Uniformity of Legislation" -
PAPER READ BEFORE THE
Mississippi Bar Association -
AT ITS
- Annual Convention, Vicksburg, Miss., May 9, 1907.
W. O. Hart
OF THE NEW ORLEANS BAR.
[New Orleans], 1907. First Edition. Rare 8vo. 16 pages. Original printed wrappers, side-stapled. Covers dusted with moderate edgewear, chipping. Institutional bookplate and call numbers rubberstamped at foot of p.[1] and p.15 - endpages toned, otherwise textblock clear and unmarked.
"In the law and in organizations and movements for a well trained and scholarly lawyer who has special qualifications, William Octave Hart
(1857-1929)
has been prominent in New Orleans for a long period of years...He has been a writer on a varied line of subjects, though chiefly within his profession. He is author of a Guide to New Orleans, published in 1904, and of a number of pamphlets and articles on legal, historical and patriotic subjects. He compiled the laws of Louisiana for Sharp & Alleman's Legal Directory and the American Corporation Legal Manual."
- Kendall's
History of New Orleans
, 1922