Word: weal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press-the reporters-it appeared that M. Briand taxed M. Krassin with maintaining at his Embassy a Communist propaganda service and in particular charged one Voline, First Secretary, with having addressee! a public meeting in a tenor most displeasing to the French and entirely subversive of the public weal...
...give the united support of our Republic and of the allied countries to effective machinery, to raise the standard of the workers' condition in backward countries, to help humanize industry for the common weal is a paramount duty which our Republic must perform...
...furtherance of the public welfare; when, therefore, a statute which usually accomplishes this end fails to react to the benefit of the public in a particular case, the fundamental purpose of the law should be considered above its mere verbal provisions. In other words, the public weal supersedes all law." The Supreme Court reasoned in no such way. If it had, it would have said in effect, that this is a government of men and not of laws. For in every case, the opinion of the judge as to what "the public weal" was would be supreme and controlling over...
...right. Their task is to apply legislation to the facts; and if in any case a statute appears capable of more than one interpretation, to construe it as they think the legislature meant it to be construed, subject to general principles of construction. Mr. Leach forgets that the public weal is a thing, concerning which there can be no knowledge, but only opinion; and that our government is based on the idea that we should rely on the opinion of our representative legislatures and not of the courts...
...judge of what the public thinks) have been forced to realize that these principles (i.e., freedom of speech and the press) have reacted to the detriment of the public welfare which they were purposed to benefit." The obvious moral is that in the case of Bolshevists the public weal (or Mr. Leach's interpretation of it) should supersede the law. But suppose the public-or some court-should get the idea that Mr. Leach's speeches and letters were detrimental to the public welfare. What then, Mr. Leach? ROBERT M. BENJAMIN...