Year: 1929
Type: article
Abstract: Once upon a time the legislature of Arkansas undertook to control by statute a matter of popular pronunciation.' On another occasion, an Indiana legislator "attempted to eliminate parental difficulties in assisting in geometric problems by legislating out of existence the infinite tail of decimals that attaches to the ratio ;r.,,2 Chief Justice Holt's claim "that an Act of Parliament can do anything save alter sex," 3 has recently been bolstered by the solemn determination by the Wyoming legislature, "in the interest of -historical accuracy," that "the ascent of the Grand Teton Peak in Teton County, Wyoming, made by William 0. Owen, Franklin S. Spaulding, Frank L. Peterson, and John Shive, on the eleventh day of August, 1898, is the first ascent ever made of that renowned mountain."4 Thus are history fashioned and immortality conferred by legislative fiat.It seems that the limit of legislative power has been closely approached in recent attempts to preserve inviolate for posterity, by means of statutory enactments, the tradition of Adam's accomplishments.Nevertheless, a suggestion of further extension of legislative control of thought has recently appeared not That of the name of the state.'Lee, Corporate Criminal Liability, 28 CoL.L. REV.
Author: Wiley Rutledge
Institution: Washington University in St. Louis
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W205756436