Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against Prof. Scopes to test the law's constitutionality, marshaled funds for the defense, announced that, in addition to many eminent scientists who had offered assistance and testimony, the services of Herbert George Wells, British outliner of history, would be sought. Counsel for Prof. Scopes accepted offers of legal aid from Lawyers 'Dudley Field Malone (suave Manhattan lawyer) and Clarence Darrow (Chicago criminal extricator...
...Clarence Darrow is taking off his powdered wig for good. To the legal profession he has long been known as one of the most astute and fearless criminal lawyers. To the morbid public he is known as the counsel for Leopold and Loeb. Needless to say, his intention of retiring to a life of leisure and literary pursuits causes a sharp reaction of one sort or another in all quarters...
...bringing of the trial in Washington, let it suffice to say that the jurisdiction over the alleged crime is legally in Washington; and that new evidence which had not previously been heard justified a new trial on entirely different grounds. The present charge is one of conspiracy to defraud the government, while the former one was the improper acceptance of fees while in public office. The action of the Department of Justice was entirely legal, and uninfluenced by persons outside the Department. The writer of your editorial has apparently forgotten an incident which took place early in this year...
...militaristic myth. In institutions of learning subsidized under the Morrill land-grant act, the law requires that "the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and in including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts." Legal advice indisputably shows that the law, therefore, requires only that military training be offered...
...constitutional democracy is often held up as the highest form of government. In a democracy, however, the vote of the majority, that is, the uneducated masses, determines as a rule the legal statutes of the country. The present grave situation is a sad commentary on the success of a democratic government which prides itself on its inviolate constitution, its personal liberty, and last but not least on its intellectual enlightenment...