Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven years of court business since the South Braintree murder. Ought we not as citizens, unable to follow in detail the enormous mass of this argument, respect the work of our courts and be satisfied with this sentence...
...answer is, No: not unless we are satisfied. Our courts deserve respect; but they can not presume infallibility. It is our privilege, it is our constant duty to judge our judges. In a free state, criminal trials are public trials for this very purpose: the conscience of the law must co-operate with the conscience of the community...
...feared in some quarters that an acknowledgment of error would diminish respect for the courts. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Nothing can undermine public esteem for law more certainly than a prevalent suspicion that its guardians care more for their own consistency than for human rights. The real enemies of our institutions are nomen like Sacco and Vanzettil whose criticisms are outspoken and can be met, while their constructions are Utoplan. Our real enemies are those who defend the indefensible, who refuse to acknowledge errors obvious to all thoughtful men, and who defer to lesser interests that primary...
...through law, is to be internally administered by means of education. The proposal in its concrete form, is a bill introduced in to the Nebraska State Legislature, by State Senator Allen S. Stinson, a former school teacher, providing for courses in "common honesty, morality, courtesy, obedience to law, respect to the flag, respect for parents and the home, and the dignity and necessity of honest labor," to be given in all the grade and high schools of the state. The standards which these courses are to meet and the way in which they are to perform their somewhat difficult mission...
Without questioning the competence of successive superintendants to pass judgement on just the sort of morality, honesty, and respect which should be instilled in their youthful charges one is still somewhat puzzled on trying to visualize the future morality course in actual operation. Such vexing matters as the text book of morality which should be chosen or its proper interpretation, just how honesty is to be made the guiding principle of a prominent swindler's son, or how respect for the flag is to be inspired without arousing dangerous international antipathies indicate a more difficult problem than the Senator seems...