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Time To Rededicate Ourselves To Freedom Under The Law

Governor Vandiver Urges In Address At Mercer University

Our Last Best Hope Is In Constitution As Written, Intended, Chief Executive Says

The time has come "to rededicate ourselves to freedom under the law", according to Governor Ernest Vandiver, of Georgia.

In a speech delivered on Law Day at Mercer University in Macon, he also said:

"Nothing more vividly points up the need for this rededication more than the dangerous feeling of skepticism that sometimes seems rampant in our present American society. It sometimes appears that our people tend to sink into a suicidal fatalism that accepts corruption, violence, crime, injustice and misgovernment as part of the natural and changeless order of things."

Majesty of The Law

His speech in this connection says:

Law Day and occasions of this sort cause all of us to pause and give thought to the majesty of the law. Our thoughts go back to Runnymede some 744 years ago when King John capitulated before the Barons. For there on that historic meadow not far from Windsor Castle was written the first great English landmark of freedom under the law - the Magna Carta.

It is to this great charter that we ascribe the ideal that all men, whether of station high or humble, will stand as equals before the bar of justice, and that no one shall be above the law.

Its truths are universal and eternal, good for all men, and for all time.

Founding Fathers

The devotion of our founding fathers to the Magna Carta and its principles brought forth our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

It is the duty of all of us today to hold these hallowed principles high.

Now is the time to rededicate ourselves to freedom under the law.
Our Last Best Hope Is In Constitution As Written, Intended, Chief Executive Says

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Nothing more vividly points up the need for this rededication more than the dangerous feeling of skepticism that sometimes seems rampant in our present American society. It sometimes appears that our people tend to sink into a suicidal fatalism that accepts corruption, violence, crime, injustice and misgovernment as part of the natural and changeless order of things.

Nation's Moral Fibre

Here is a problem that no professional expert can solve by the drafting of new legislation. It strikes at the very moral fibre of the nation itself. Its solution is, as it must be, a return to the original precepts of our Constitution.

Our last best hope is faith in our law as written and intended and in our Constitution as written and intended.

Wherever there is liberty, there must be law, for freedom unrestrained descends to license.

Liberties of People

The lawyer is the medium through which the law reaches the people, and the highest honor and integrity must mark the calling which deals with the rights, the privileges and the liberties of the people.

By reason of his training and position, the lawyer is looked to for guidance and advice and wields a mighty influence for good or evil.

The lawyer's education is never done. His knowledge must touch upon all things, for all things are involved in subjects of judicial investigation.

Georgia's Bench, Bar

If lawyers and the judiciary think clearly, our whole people prosper; if they are slovenly, confusion follows in their wake.

Let people everywhere take cognizance of the fact that the Georgia bench and bar yields to no other in its high ideals.

Let us all join hands, now, with a single eye to the future, confident, that by our labors to build a greater State, God will bless us and Georgians yet to come.

Cracks And Otherwise

"War to the hilt between Communism and capitalism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in 20 to 30 years. To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of-concessions. The capitalist countries. stupid and decadent, will rejoice to co-operate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clinched fist."

Dimitry Z. Manuilsky before the Lenin School of Political Warfare, Moscow, 1931.