Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussion yesterday of the validity of Governor Quinn's proolamalion, it was stated that, although martial law seriously restricts liberty, the Executive must be able to declare it in order to handle emergencies which cannot be taken care of in the courts...
These constitutional provisions allow a state governor a wide range of discretion, first, in deciding that the emergency exists which justifies martial law, and second in choosing the means to enforce order...
Thus Chief Justice Hughes said five years ago (287 U. S. at 399): "The nature of the power also necessarily implies that there is a permitted range of honest judgment as to the measures to be taken in meeting force with force, in suppressing violence and restoring order, for without such liberty to made immediate decisions, the power itself would be useless...
Emergencies arise, nevertheless, when such drastic curtailments of liberty are warranted. The freedom of a few must sometimes be sacrificed in order to preserve freedom of all. Martial law is surely proper in a territory invaded by foreign troops, so that the ordinary courts can no longer sit and the army must be left free to take every available means to maintain the defense of the Nation...
...second continued the existence of the Council committee now investigating the subject, in order that the committee might discuss with the heads of publications, published by undergraduates, the subject of limiting tutoring school ads in the first, or registration, week of College...