Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported that it is based upon the common man and is essential to democracy: at which Rowe replied that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions of fact. J. E. Willard '30, attacking from a new angle, felt that "the jury system makes law the instrument of man, not man the instrument of law"; whereupon McBride announced that "there is no danger of tyranny today". H. A. Wolff '29, summing up, pleaded that changes might be advisable, but not complete abolishment...
Debating on the question, "Resolved, That this house favors the Baumes Law," the Harvard Freshman debating team lost its first debate of the year to Exeter on Saturday night, by a 3 to 0 decision...
Another important effect which results from the Act is that whereas prior to the Jones Law prosecution of violators of the Prohibition Law could be started by an information, now that the selfsame crimes are felonies, there must be a grand jury presentment or indictment as a condition precedent to trial. This will of course increase the burden and cost of Federal Prosecution and will result in additional delays and perhaps in large wet cities in lack of prosecution by Grand Juries. Perhaps the solution will be in a change in the Criminal Code distinction between felonies and misdemeanors...
Montesquieu regarded the severity of laws as a definite hindrance to their execution. Juries will acquit and Grand Juries will not indict where a majority in the community oppose such sumptuary laws as is the Prohibition Law...
Perhaps in these times "Respect for law" which is our modern substitute for "love of the King's subjects toward their prince" is a feeble safeguard for the social well being. The subsequent history of Federal enforcement ought to provide President Hoover's Commission with an opportunity for a valuable study in criminology