Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christianity is opposed to the spirit that puts gain above all other principles," Mrs. Luce said, "but socialism is even worse, because it gives the state final authority over all human rights...
...Every system must take self-love into account," the clergyman commented. "But in a technical society," he said, "each man seeking his own good will not produce the common welfare...
...government employment was placed in the hands of one man, unfettered by any unconstitutional guarantees of due process of law. Justice Jackson condemned this type of proceeding when, speaking for the Supreme Court is West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 US 624, 642 (1943) he said: "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion...
Governor Smith in 1923, when repealing New York's anti-sedition statutes which required loyalty oaths, said the laws "were repugnant to the fundamentals of American democracy...
...Dies Committee in October, 1938 when it demanded the firing of teachers who attended meetings sponsored by alleged communist front organizations. In regard to the doctrine which is now being used by the President's Loyalty Board, Justice Murphy, in bridges v. Wixon, 326 US 135, 163 (1945) said: "The doctrine of personal guilt is one of the fundamental principles of our jurisprudence. It partakes of the very essence of the concept of freedom and due process to law." The standard so well advocated by Justice Murphy is completely obliterated by the use of the guilt by association doctrine...