Word: malum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...justice can be greatly improved by fewer rigid laws such as those of the Jones 5 & 10 calibre. Bigger and better prisons and jails would not be needed if our present laws would demand that the intent of the accused to commit crime be established as per requirements of malum in se laws, rather than the laws which our "overworked" and zealous legislators hand out known as malum prohibition laws, where criminal intent is not essential to commit crime and to become a "criminal...
...would enable us to distinguish between good and evil and in doing so "be as God." We have been driven from the Eden of our idealism, yet no angel with a flaming sword bars our return. At any rate, Dean Pound, a discerner of right and wrong of the malum in se and the malum prohibitum, the two varieties of apples that grow upon the same tree by reason of the grafting of law gives us home that we shall again come into that confidence which is essential to happiness. He said: "I am not without confidence "that...