Category: Law & Criminology

Concerning Justice

For centuries now much has been written and proclaimed concerning justice and today the word seems to be more than ever upon the lips of men, more than ever used, but not always appositely, in arguments for proposed political action. Hence it may not be inappropriate to the ti...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

For centuries now much has been written and proclaimed concerning justice and today the word seems to be more than ever upon the lips of men, more than ever used, but not always...

9. Chapter 9

Despite the lessons of history showing the need of specified limitations upon the legislative power to ensure personal liberty and justice, it is still urged by the impatient th...

8. Chapter 8

For the judiciary to be in fact, as well as in theory, the protector of the constitutional rights of the individual against the government, and of the legal rights of the indivi...

4. Chapter 4

The question stated at the close of the last chapter is most important and, in a sense, is perhaps the crux of the whole matter. Not only may error in the solution of the questi...

5. Chapter 5

In the present state of civilization society cannot act effectively for determining and maintaining the line, the equilibrium, between necessary freedom and necessary restraint,...

6. Chapter 6

It should be evident that the division and distribution of governmental powers among different depositaries will not alone prevent encroachments by the governing power upon the...

3. Chapter 3

Men are endowed by nature with sundry powers, faculties, capacities, physical and mental. These, however, are not at all uniform, but are diverse in kind and degree in different...

2. Chapter 2

The problem of Rights is also centuries old. There have been in later years glowing tributes to human rights even more than to justice, though the sentiment of rights is egoisti...

7. Chapter 7

Under our federal and state form of government the question naturally arises where should be lodged the power to determine whether in a given instance either department has encr...