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DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nReproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia University Libraries                  \n## RESTRICTIONS ON USE:\n\nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nFILM SIZE:            35mmBEDUCTION RATIO:            9:1  \nIIB  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nDATE FILMED:                  5-2-97INITIALS:         93   \nTRACKING\\#:                                                                                                    23648  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n# LIBERTY LAWS\n\nBY  \nWALTER GORDON MERRITT  \n308  \n二  \nBc×22  \n\"IAM not here contending that theAnti-Trust Laws have never in-terfered with legitimate activities or thatthere may not be some details in whichthey might further be improved,but Iwarn you against the preachings of thesefalse prophets,whe speak unqualifiedcondemnation of these laws and advocatetheir complete repeal.It is altogethertoo easy for those who find legal barriersbetween them and their objectives,tobecome impatient of the restraint and tolook upon such laws as an unwarrantedencroachment on liberty.So it is thatsome business men little realize that,byand large,the Anti-Trust Laws protect,more than they curtail,liberty,and thatin truth they have become a real citadel ofliberty.\"  \nPublshed by  \nLEAGUE FOR INDUSTRIAL RIGHTS165 Broadway,New York Clty  \n# Liberty Laws\n\nBY  \nWALTER GORDON MERRITTNOVEMBER,1926  \n3  \n# Liberty Laws\n\n8  \nLiberty is not a mere matter of the form of government.In earlier centuries,before civilized societies became sooutstandingly commercial in their structure,it wasthought that human freedom was solely a question ofestablishing a democracy.Monarchies and oligarchieswere looked upon as the instrument of actual or potentialtyranny,and democracy as an adequate safeguard forliberty.Observers now realize that winning the fight forself-government through democratic or republican in-stitutions does not necessarily mean winning the fight forliberty.Democracy may become as great a destroyer ofliberty as any other sovereign,for the tyranny of the mobor majority may be the most unrestrained of tyrannies.  \nModern life has required a careful revaluation of theessentials of human rights.Where multitudes are crowdedtogether and the activities of one group are so largelydependent upon the activities of another,that which wasunimportant may become important.The proper ad-justment between the freedom of the individual citizenand the right of society to protect itself through a govern-mental act,and the proper adjustment between thefreedom of the individual and the activities of privatecombinations or groups can only be reached throughpainstaking experience,based on sound ideals andprinciples.  \nLiberty Laws  \nThat body of French and American thinkers whosephilosophy was written into the framework of the Govern-ment of the United States made America the most in-teresting field of experimentation in the case of humanfreedom.So long and so far as the state and federalconstitutions follow that philosophy,each citizen hasa sacred sphere of constitutional liberty as his blessedestate upon which no government,no citizen and nomajority of citizens can trespass.“The Constitution”,says the Supreme Court of the United States,\"wasintended,its very purpose was,to prevent experimentationwith the fundamental rights of the individual.\"Thispolitical conception,which David Jayne Hill described asthe essence of Americanism and which has always seemedto me to be,at the same time,the most glorious andpractical ideal of modern government,safeguards to theindividual,even as against the act of legislatures or otherbranches of government,certain rights of life,liberty andproperty.It brings again to mind the eloquent appeal ofthe famous Pitt:一  \n\"The poorest man may in his cottage biddefiance to all the forces of 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