Word: pufendorf
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Philadelphia is famed for dead heroes, delicate food and municipal mismanagement. Last week it got a new dead hero and a new delicacy. The hero: Samuel von Pufendorf. The delicacy: Bologna. The municipal mismanagement was still right there...
...select a Mayor by such a plurality or majority as will fairly express the public will is a manifest absurdity." When the application of a law is manifestly absurd, the law should be invalidated. The Court cited many a legal authority, for that principle. Among them: Samuel von Pufendorf...
Baron Samuel von Pufendorf, a German lawyer who died in 1694, had once made a pointed citation from the laws of Bologna that the rule "whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity" should not extend to the surgeon "who opened the veins of a person that fell down in the street...
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