Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-15 | Page 3 | Professor Points out Examples of Wide Disregard of Law

Points Out 9 J Examples of Wide I i f Disregard of Law La w t i res es el Historical Instances Instance Instances 1 Following Report of J Law Commission 1 Editors Editor's The Note The statement in the law enforce enforce- ent nt commission report that in prohibition tion we wo not forget the many his his- examples of scale large disregard of laws in our our- l pit st It sent ent many people to lo their their- story books In order ordel to group sue lie incidents of unified law law- aw awaking aking king In iri concise form the Press obtained the folI fol- fol I wing wing statement from DI Dr Holt i n assistant professor in I r science at George Washing- Washing n fl university WILLIAM WILLIAM ILLIAM STULL HOLT PhD Ph.D. i ritten for for- forthe the United Press I ASHiNGTON Jan 15 The H.-The The two Standing landing Instances of wid widespread atlon of oC law Jaw by the public In history the colonial l regard ard of or the English tr trade acts the t failure of or the north to en- en the thc federal fugitive slave c laws lawsto r r to the Civil war je e colonists not only onh tolerated I even en approved Cd of or violations ot of English h navigation acts which their prosperity lity and ran inter t to their ideas of or liberty 1 result was the tho machinery for 1 enforcement broko roko down own Colo- Colo juries simply would not convict going 1 to EO o far In one case as ns to that soap was feed In order I avoid old ln ba having to convict a a. perho per- per who ho had brought some In with with- paying a tax his hb b belief lIc that the laws were bad s ins Wh why thy John Hancock and so sn sony ny y other citizens were smugglers k yet were held in high public urd rd tempts by the English govern- govern I nt to secure curo better belter enforcement the American ro he t same sarno willingness 1 s to disregard believed to be improper conI con- con I ed fd 1 after tho revolution leading the called so-called whisky whisk rebellion io o c next great period when laws Jaws lawso lawse e o e violated widely del was during the thc eon cn years ears preceding the Civil Antipathy to the federal edral fugl- fugl slave law then made many citizens law Jaw breakers and them slave slavo owners found It ex- ex mel ely difficult to recover reeO slaves sla 6 o had escaped to tho north Mobs lob prevented rc the return o ot of o IU sIn slaves sIne e h by the law In w. w and the theil il 1 police would not act the ca case o of oC PrIg vs Penn Penn- Vania the court held that state to officials were required r to assist In returning away laway slaves unless a a. state la law d it As a result some Bome of or j states even repealed their state so 0 there then would bo be no machin- machin f r the slaves sla owners la a 1111 tradition In this c coun- coun un- un referred to by the commission Its ts report was handed down from tram tradition In England and the belief that people te se to the right to refuse to obe obey a emment eminent if tr it act acts tyrannically docs does not nol protect the right peo- peo have havo to life liberty and antl the purIt purt pur- pur It t of oC happiness s