Francis Gaylord Cook

“How has this control of the judiciary by party bosses and campaign committees arisen, and to what extent does it prevail?”

“Though [the United States] possess a common spirit, common habits, sentiments, interests, and social conditions, yet in the regulation of these interests and conditions they assume toward one another the attitude of foreign states.”

“The Puritans firmly implanted in our social soil ‘the strict Protestant principle that marriage is purely a civil right,’ and there has always been a tendency to interpret strictly all legislative restriction or limitation upon the exercise of that right.”

“Gradually have the statutes transferred from the husband to the wife the control, the responsibility, and the ownership of her separate property, breaking up the former unity of property between them, and recognizing in the wife a distinct legal existence and capacity.”