Groping America Vol 2 --

For Bruni this meant tracing out the uneven evolution of local dreams of a =
type of popular political freedom, and delineating their progressive realiz=
ation and fatuous destruction through twelve brisk books, commencing with t=
heir primeval-misty Etruscan points of origin. It is significant that his t=
itle refers to the Florentine people and not just to Florence the city: an =
entire civilization, and not merely a city-state in the institutional sense=
, is viewed as groping its way over the centuries into familiar, if for his=
 day rather novel, notions of elected and just self-government. What remain=
s striking for the modern reader along these lines is how early, at least f=
rom Bruni's point of view and despite the succeeding dry periods of ditheri=
ng defeats, an Italian population is to be understood as romanticizing vari=
ous possibilities of quasi-democracy and treating them as a virtuous enterp=
rise.

[1] Mr. Justice Frankfurter in the recent case of Neirbo Company and A. P. =
Smith Manufacturing Company et al. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, L=
td., 60 S. Ct. 153, 155, 84 L.Ed. ___, sums up the success of this suggesti=
on. He says with the lucidity that is now enriching the Supreme Court decis=
ions: "* * * It has done so largely by assimilating corporations to natural=
 persons. The long, tortuous evolution of the methods whereby foreign corpo=
rations gained access to courts or could be brought there, is the history o=
f judicial groping for a reconciliation between the practical position achi=
eved by the corporation in society and a natural desire to confine the powe=
rs of these artificial creations.", citing Henderson, The Position of Forei=
gn Corporations in American Constitutional Law, pp. 163-194. See also Warre=
n, History of the Supreme Court, Vol. 1, p. 389, Vol. 2, p. 394, Vol. 3, p.=
 427; Warren, History of the Federal Judiciary Act of 1789, 37 Harvard Law =
Review 49, 90; Russell, Congress Should Abrogate Federal Jurisdiction over =
Corporations, 7 Harvard Law Review 16; Thompson, Federal Jurisdiction in Ca=
ses of Corporations, 29 American Law Review 864; Trieber, Jurisdiction of F=
ederal Courts in Actions in Which Corporations are Parties, 39 American Law=
 Review 564; Baldwin, A Legal Fiction with Its Wings Clipped, 41 American L=
aw Review 38; Alitzer, Jurisdiction of Federal Courts over State Corporatio=
ns, 43 American Law Review 409; Frankfurter, Distribution of Judicial Power=
 Between United States and State Courts, 13 Cornell Law Quarterly 499; Frie=
ndly, The Historic Basis of Diversity Jurisdiction, 41 Harvard Law Review 4=
83; compare Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Assurance Society, L=
td., v. Howe, 31 C. L.R. 290, and as to the Fourteenth Amendment, Graham, T=
he "Conspiracy Theory" of the Fourteenth Amendment, 47 Yale Law Journal 371=
, Part 1; 48 Yale Law Journal 171, Part 2.

Groping America Vol 2 --
Download Zip https://shurll.com/2wHu0s



Most of us will listen anxiously tonight to Secretary Marshall's radio repo=
rt to the American people, hoping that he will tell us some of the things w=
e need to know in order to understand the present situation. Has he come to=
 a conclusion as to what a comprehensive plan for world recovery must conta=
in, or is he still groping? If not, what are the obstacles that make unders=
tanding so difficult and planning apparently impossible?
 eebf2c3492