Address of the North Carolina Supreme Court at Cooper Union, New York City
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Excerpt from Address of the North Carolina Supreme Court at Cooper Union, New York City: 27 January, 1914; Government by Judges We have learned that the form of government amounts to very little. The real question is, Where does the control of that government reside? In the countries of the Old World, power was vested in an hereditary sovereign in whose selection the people had no voice and who needed no approval of his conduct, however arbitrary. In the process of time, the wealthier classes were able to force recognition, and they became the nobility and hereditary legislators. When in course of time, after long struggles and many revolutions, the class next below obtained recognition, they elected the lower house, as in England, but upon a suffrage restricted to the well-to-do and by a system which permitted the influence and the money of the government of the king and nobility to dictate the election of a majority of the lower house or their purchase by the bestowal of titles and money. To this system as buttresses there was an army and navy whose best posts were filled by younger members of the nobility, while the rank and file were composed of men from the exploited masses, conscripted or forced into service, and paid an insignificant amount ranging from two to twenty cents per month. The Church was also a State institution likewise paid for by the exploited millions, and whose higher positions were filled by the appointment of the younger members of the aristocracy. Such, in brief, was the origin and the development of governments in the Old World. If there was discontent, the army and navy under the command of their aristocratic officers were used to shoot down the friends and relatives of the underpaid rank and file. And the thunders of the Church were used to frighten with threats of eternal condemnation and everlasting fires those who aspired to better their conditions in life and obtain some little larger share of the wealth they created. Those who objected to being exploited were shot in this world and officially damned in the next. Our plutocrats, lacking these facilities, have resorted to the infallibility of the Supreme Court. In this country, in 1776, we issued a Declaration which was the sublimest that the world had ever heard. It proclaimed the rights of mankind, and their equality and freedom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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