Excerpt from Attitude of American Courts in Labor Cases, Vol. 42: A Study in Social Legislation The Constitution of the United States was made for an undefined and expanding future, and for a people gathered and to be gathered from many nations and of many tongues... We shall expect that the new and various experiences of our own situation and system will mold and shape it into new and not less useful forms. It must be remembered that even the constitutions we call rigid must take their choice between being bent and being broken. The Americans have more than once bent their Constitution in order that they might not be forced to break it... And it has stood because it has submitted to a process of constant though sometimes scarcely perceptible change which has adapted it to the conditions of the new age. The true grounds of decision are considerations of policy and of social advantage, and it is vain to suppose that solutions can be attained merely by logic and general propositions of law which nobody disputes. Propositions as to public policy rarely are unanimously accepted, and still more rarely, if ever, are capable of unanswerable proof. They require a special training to enable any one even to form an intelligent opinion about them. 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.