SECTION B CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 



(Hall 14, September 24, 10 a. m.) 



CHAIRMAN: PROFESSOR HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER, George Washington Uni- 

 versity, Washington. 

 SPEAKERS: SIGNOR ATTILIO BRUNIALTT, Councilor of State, Rome. 



PROFESSOR JOHN W. BURGESS, Columbia University. 



PROFESSOR F. LARNAUDE, University of Paris. 



IN opening the Section of Constitutional Law the Chairman, 

 Professor Henry St. George Tucker, of George Washington Univer- 

 sity, spoke as follows: " I deem it one of the greatest honors of my 

 life to be called upon to preside over this Section of this great Con- 

 gress. As I look into the faces of those gathered here from every 

 country of the world, distinguished for their learning in the greatest 

 of subjects enlisting the interest of the people of the world, I recog- 

 nize the fact that this Congress, in its full and free discussion of con- 

 stitutional questions, may be of far-reaching importance to all the 

 world. As an American I may be pardoned for saying that we take 

 a just pride in the development of constitutional law in the Republic 

 of the United States. With the progress of the whole world in this 

 subject before us, we have sought to incorporate into our system 

 the principles developed in each country which commended them- 

 selves to our conditions, and have added to them a security of civil 

 liberty to the citizen unequaled in any of the constitutions of the 

 world. We have with us representatives to-day from the kingdoms 

 of Belgium and Italy, who will, I doubt not, instruct as well as delight 

 us in the additions which they will make to our knowledge on this 

 subject." 



