Word: justice
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fairbanks, you are right. Far-distance glasses. He has failed to perceive that justice is elemental in the state and that when, after a succession of the basest deeds has been perpetrated against society in general (not to men certain material causes which would tend to incite retaliation by whites upon the blacks), the fundamental concept of emotional justice, whether it is justified or not, is bound to force action. I dare say that were a succession of 28 assaults and outrages by negroes upon white women to occur in any city in the country, eastern cities included, there would...
...fundamental principles of government, said Mr. Garfield, must be learned not alone from text-books, but from experience and contact with men. Our state constitutions adopted ten, fifty, or a hundred years ago can not be applied to modern conditions without change. Chief Justic Marshall saw that the Federal Constitution must grow and by his wise decisions did not hamper Congress in its extension of the powers granted in the commerce clause of the Constitution. Those states are advancing ahead of their neighbors whose courts have similarly been most liberal in the construction of their several constitutions. To fulfill their...