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XI 



RIGHT OF THE STATE TO CONTROL AND SUPERVISE CHARITIES 

 AND CORRECTIONS 



New wants are springing up at every step of progress. Human 

 desires and activities are ever increasing. New conditions arise 

 and new forms of aid and relief and of correction are demanded. 

 It is important to determine whether the state has the right to 

 control and supervise them. Bluntschli says : "It is acknowl- 

 edged now that law and its administrators do not merely exercise 

 rule over individuals, but render very essential and important 

 services to them. A large number of useful and beneficent in- 

 stitutions owe their origin to this view."^ He further explains 

 that, "The end of the state is the development of the national 

 capacities, the perfecting of the national life, and finally its 

 completion."^ 



McKechnie says, "The good of humanity is the ' end of the 

 state."- Concerning the sphere of the state, he says, "As every- 

 thing within the territory of a state is subject to its control, it 

 follows that its proper sphere is coextensive with the range of 

 its dominions."- "If it is the business of the state to preserve 

 itself from dissolution, the supervision of the morals and intelli- 

 gence of its people lies, undoubtedly, within its nonual sphere. 

 There is no part of the life of man that can claim to lie outside 

 of its sphere."- In harmony with these views Dr. C. R. Hender- 

 son of Chicago is correct in saying, "The state alone is the organ 

 of all members of society, and it alone has the acknowledged 

 right to supervise and govern all institutions."^ This right car- 

 ries with it moral obligation. 



iThe Theory of tlie State, pp. 307, 320-21. 

 -The State and tlie Individual, pp. 83, 92, 96. 

 ^Dependents, Defectives, and Delinquents, p. 62. 



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