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Relevance: 31% Posted on: April 4, 2018
One of the rarest qualities of national character is the capacity for applying and working out the law, as such, at the cost of constant miscarriages of abstract justice, without at the same time losing the hope or the wish that law may be conformed to a higher ideal. Sir…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: November 5, 2012
There they go again! You’d think after Nebraskans voted three separate times for eight-year legislative term limits that the state’s legislators would finally accept the vote of the people they claim to serve. But you’d be wrong. The limits passed in ’92 and ’94 were struck down in court rulings…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: January 20, 2012
On Jan. 20, 1265, the first English parliament conducted its first meeting held by Simon de Montfort in the Palace of Westminster. On Jan. 20, 1801, John Marshall was appointed by President John Adams to be the Chief Justice of the United States, serving in the position longer than anyone…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: June 11, 2015
“I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.” David Crockett, A Narrative of…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: November 30, 2014
On November 30, 1804, the United States House of Representatives began impeachment hearings against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. The House thought he was too partisan, too "Federalist." The Senate later acquitted Chase. On 1835 on this date, Samuel Clemens was born, later to achieve world fame as author and…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: January 3, 2012
Those who prosecute our laws have a solemn responsibility to seek justice, not simply victories in court. Their duties include not prosecuting the innocent and allowing defendants to examine all evidence. Yet, in their zeal to look good with superiors — or to have better material for their political re-election…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: October 19, 2023
The ancient maxim makes the sum of a man’s legal duty to his fellow men to be simply this: ‘To live honestly, to hurt no one, to give to every one his due.’ Lysander Spooner, Natural Law; or The Science of Justice (1882).
Relevance: 31% Posted on: December 25, 2016
Merry Christmas! Oh, and before you get too comfortable, click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for more nog: The Sentinel: Ficker surprised by size of term limit win U.S. Term Limits: Municipal Election Results (2008-2014) Time: See How Donald Trump’s Proposed Term Limits Would Eliminate Half of…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: August 1, 2012
Democracy and socialism are not interdependent concepts. They are not only different, but opposing philosophies. Is it consistent with democracy to institute the most meddlesome, all-encompassing and restrictive government, provided that it be publicly chosen and that it act in the name of the people? Would the result not be…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: September 29, 2023
Where without any change in circumstances the things held to be just by law are seen not to correspond with the concept of justice in actual practice, such laws are not really just; but wherever the laws have ceased to be advantageous because of a change in circumstances, in that…