James Francis Edward Keith
James Francis Edward Keith 1696-1758, Scottish field marshal of Prussia; brother of George Keith, 10th earl marischal [marshal] of Scotland. He participated in the Jacobite uprising of 1715 and in the abortive invasion of 1719 with his brother. Escaping to the Continent, he first entered the Spanish service and then went to Russia, where he gained honor in both civil and military offices. Later he went to Prussia and became close friends with Frederick the Great, who made him a field marshal (1747). Keith entered the circle of Europe's leading intellectuals and rendered great service to Prussia in the early part of the Seven Years War. He was killed in the battle of Hochkirch.
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MUNN V. ILLINOIS (1877) : A CENTENNIAL EVALUATION
Magazine article from: Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics, and Policy; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...of this article is to examine Munn v. Illinois and its subsequent ramifications...Grange in the 1870's, (c) the Munn v. Illinois appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court, (d) the appeal of Munn v. Illinois to the U.S. Supreme Court...
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MUNN V. ILLINOIS-ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
Magazine article from: Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics, and Policy; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; The Supreme Court decision in the ease of Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113, 24 L. Bd. 77, is at page one of all...rights which are purely and exclusively private, Thorpe v. R. R. Co., 27 Vt., 143, but it does authorize...
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Sex and the singular Constitution: what remains of Roe v. Wade? (court case upholding freedom of choice as a basic constitutional right)
Magazine article from: PS: Political Science & Politics; 6/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...vote abortion up or down because Roe v. Wade in 1973 made "freedom of choice...is worth a volume of logic." Roe v. Wade purports to rest on the Fourteenth...outlaw a state regulation of business (Munn v. Illinois, 1877), but it did outlaw the trial...
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"COLD, HARD FACTS": JUSTICE BRANDEIS AND THE OKLAHOMA ICE CASE.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...although exceptions such as the Slaughterhouse Cases and Munn v Illinois existed. Munn in particular established the public interest doctrine...process clause. Beginning with Santa Clara County v Southern Pacific Railway in 1886, the court swung...
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Is there a canon of constitutional history?
Magazine article from: Constitutional Commentary; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...1803) McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) Slaughter-House Cases (1873) Munn v. Illinois (1877) In re Debs (1895) Plessy v. Ferguson...
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Populist lawyer Benjamin fought monopolies
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 1/28/2007; ; 699 words
; ...1869-70 convention to redraft the Illinois Constitution. Later, he took the...also served as a special counsel in Munn v. Illinois, in which the U.S. Supreme Court...elevator (or warehouse) rates. Munn was one of the landmark "Granger...
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The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America
Magazine article from: Business History Review; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Well known examples are Champion v. Ames, which upheld federal regulation of lotteries; and Mugler v. Kansas, upholding state liquor regulation...after the Supreme Court's decision in Munn v. Illinois (1877) which permitted price regulation...
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The constitutional status of tort law: due process and the right to a law for the redress of wrongs.
Magazine article from: Yale Law Journal; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Recognition and Retreat 1. Truax v. Corrigan and the Arrival of Rational...Structural Due Process 4. Constitutional v. Constitutive: Eliminating the Law...review would be to ignore the counsel of Munn v. Illinois (quoted above) that individuals lack...
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Unleash the judges: the libertarian case for judicial activism.
Magazine article from: Reason; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Dissenting from the majority in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which nullified...the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) and Munn v. Illinois (1877), and his concurrence in Butchers' Union Co. v. Crescent City Co. (1884), Field...
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Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States.
Magazine article from: Industrial and Labor Relations Review; 4/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...judges. The Supreme Court recognized the right of states to regulate business, not only in Munn v. Illinois (1877) but again 15 years later in Budd v. New York (1892). Compared with the continued use of the police powers to regulate private...
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Munn V. Illinois (1877)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
MUNN V. ILLINOIS (1877) In Munn v. Illinois (1877) the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Illinois law which regulated the owners of grain elevators, declaring that government interference was constitutional in areas "affected with a public...
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Munn v. Illinois
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
MUNN V. ILLINOIS MUNN V. ILLINOIS, 94 U.S. 113 (1876), upheld state regulation of grain elevator prices. Chief Justice Morrison Waite's majority opinion rejected a commerce clause claim on the grounds that the grain elevators were wholly...
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Budd v. New York
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
...decision of the New York Court of Appeals, People v. Budd (1889), which had upheld the constitutionality...elevators, the same issue that had been resolved in Munn v. Illinois (1877). Conservative critics of Munn urged its repudiation in light of the doctrine...
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Chicago, Milwaukee, and Saint Paul Railway Company v. Minnesota
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...MILWAUKEE, AND SAINT PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY V. MINNESOTA CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, AND SAINT PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY V. MINNESOTA, 134 U.S. 418 (1890...debuted on the U.S. Supreme Court. In Munn v. Illinois (1877), the Court had refused to...
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Minnesota
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
...Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Minnesota, 134 U.S. 418, argued...Lamar in dissent. When the Court in Munn v. Illinois (1877) upheld legislative power to...Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. v. Minnesota , the Court voided legislation...
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