Download or read book Regulation of Commerce Under the Federal Constitution (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas H. Calvert and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Regulation of Commerce Under the Federal Constitution The Federal Employers' Liability Act of June 11, 1906, has recently been the subject of judicial condemnation.l The statute in part and in efiect declares the liability of every common carrier engaged in commerce between the several States for injuries to any of its employees, abrogates the assumption of risk and fellow-servant doctrines, and imposes the doctrine of comparative negligence. The first point considered by the court was whether regulating the relation of master and ser vant can be regarded as a subject of commerce or as a rule for carrying it on. Though the court answered the point in the negative, we have the impression that it has never been questioned until this case that the power of Congress over the instru mentalities of commerce covers every relation and necessarily includes the declaration of the rules of liability of interstate carriers to their employees, and especially when such rules are obviously adopted for the purpose of impressing upon the carriers the duty of exercising every precaution for the safety of their employees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.