Word: ideally
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...comes President Obama—a lawyer, a teacher, a man of the constitution —to contest for the ideal. He is challenged, like Lincoln, to make the law of our constitution our guide. His challenge will be played out at home and abroad in the courts of our consciences and of public opinion. Do we believe in Law, or in its subversion? Can we hold on to the wisdom of Socrates and the hopes and ideals of our founders, or will we bow to the cynicism and power of the autocrat? Can we express our ideals...
...Obama do it? How can we do it? How can our country reassert the ideal of American...
...America are effectively hidden from public view, seen and heard only by those few who attend. The only record of the whole proceeding is a written transcript that must be purchased to be seen, or such reports as those few in physical attendance choose to make. The constitutional ideal of government-of-and-by-the-people is hollow when the people lack the real and practical means to see and hear and understand the proceedings for themselves...
...Internet we can open our courtrooms to complete, trustworthy, inexpensive, gavel-to-gavel access to our courts. True Internet access to court proceedings is key to reviving the central and ideal place of law in America. Our courts demonstrate the centrality of law and of constitutional rights every day. They aspire to (and often exemplify) the ideals of our government. Our courts affirm that we are a government under law. With Internet, all people all over the world can witness the administration of justice in America. Contrary to Cheney’s assertion that we need secrecy, force and torture...
...understanding of ourselves. By opening the process of our courts to public access through the net and restoring the American jury to its rightful place in our democracy, I believe we will once again live the essential meaning of a government of the people under law, and represent this ideal to the world...