GOVERNMENTAL POWERS, STATE AND NATIONAL, UNDER OUR CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM

Authors

Orie Leon Phillips, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Abstract

We are living in a day when democracy is receding and the totalitarian state is advancing on many fronts. Three great nations have accepted as their governmental system authoritarian collectivism. Under the totalitarian systems, the right of the individual to think freely, to engage in free enterprise, to enjoy personal liberty, and to work out his own destiny is taken away. Instead, there is a regimentation of human beings, where everyone's thought, everyone's time, everyone's labor, and at last everyone's life, are at the disposal of a supreme authority. Of course, such a system means the vesting of tremendous powers in a highly centralized national government.

Recommended Citation

Orie L. Phillips, GOVERNMENTAL POWERS, STATE AND NATIONAL, UNDER OUR CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM, 36 Mich. L. Rev. 1051 (1938).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol36/iss7/2