Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In his speech yesterday afternoon before the Harvard Law School Association, at the centenary celebration of the school, the Honorable Charles Evans Hughes, former Justice of the United States Supreme Court, issued a warning against the tendencies among American lawmakers and the government, toward autocracy. An intolerable personal government or...
Mr. Hughes said in part: "While our inventors are constantly learning new ways of controlling the forces of nature, while engineering in war and peace is astounding us with its vision and precision of execution, it is in the art of governing ourselves that we not only fall short of...
Referring to the introduction at the Harvard Law School of the "case system," Mr. Hughes said, quoting from James C. Carter, "the lawyer's understanding does not 'firmly grasp the subject upon which he is engaged, until he turns to the actual cases as recorded in the reports and finds...
Warning against the bureaucratic and personal government tendencies of the country, Mr. Hughes said: "Ignoring the distinctions prized by our fathers, and excusing the violation of tradition by easily made phrases, we unite legislative, executive and judicial powers in an administrative agency, with large spheres of uncontrolled discretion. While it...
In conclusion, Mr. Hughes praised the work of commissions and boards, as putting out the raw material of the law that is to be, and emphasized the need of the training which special studies can furnish. "It is the truth alone that can keep you free," he concluded.