Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Kilmuir applied his text: "What we are seeing now in some parts of the world is, I am convinced, a spontaneous expression of that timeless longing, inseparable from the human condition, for justice, for the acceptance and fulfillment of the requirements of natural law, which recognizes that man is born to die and has but a little time to fulfill himself and to care for those to whom he is bound by ties of kinship and love...
There the youthful-appearing (45) new president of the A.B.A., Charles S. Rhynne of Washington D.C., added his piece to that of his seniors: "What do we mean by freedom under law? We mean acknowledgment of the fact that there are moral limitations on civil power. We mean that human beings have rights, as human beings, which are superior to what may be thought to be the rights of the state or of society. It is the truth exemplified in the Magna Carta and in the American Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights...
...Wondrous Seedbed. Thus, in one epic week, the members of the A.B.A. paid honor not so much to the seedbed of human liberty (for that lies in each human heart and not in legal systems or in history) but rather to the seedbed of the rule of law, which makes liberty possible in social practice and which holds out promise...
...laws are not static, any more than society or human nature is static," said Britain's Lord Kilmuir as he set forth the proposition that underlay the panorama. "The roots, well grounded in history and watered by wisdom, are constantly putting out fresh branches and leaves for the comfort of mankind...
...current contest between ideologies for the minds of men has done us, too, a signal, if unexpected, service. It has cast in sharp relief what we have and support, against the backdrop of the terrible tyranny of totalitarian governments and their ruthless domination over the lives of human beings. In defending the ways of a free people we have been forced to compare our systems, so that all who are able to learn may make a choice...