It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas JeffersonTag: justice tyranny prison danger law torture
An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner.
The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.
Tag: progress knowledge human-nature law crime malicious
Law is not as disinterested as our concepts of law pretend; law serves power; law in large measure is a recapitulation of the status quo; it confirms a rigid order designed to insulate the beneficiaries of the status quo from the disturbances of change. The painful truth--one with a long history--is that police are around in large part to guarantee a peaceful disgestion for the rich.
William Sloane Coffin Jr.Tag: law
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Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.
Jack McCoyTag: freedom humanity law rights order mccoy
A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
Massad AyoobAnd although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.
George CarlinWhen mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
Émile DurkheimTag: morality law rules social-norms
Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to perform them—have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice—and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.
John IrvingTag: women law freedom-of-choice abortion
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
John MarshallTag: innocence justice trial law guilt courts legality
The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.
Tag: law canon dissertation feudal
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