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Show Law in m Democracy "For that Is what a law Is In a democracy a statute that the people peo-ple will back up; Indeed, In the long run, that Is all a law Is anywhere. The laws of a nation or community are the recorded customs of the people peo-ple .. . and all the historic codes, the Mosaic code, the laws of Solon and Lycurgus, the codes of Justinian and Napoleon, the civil law, the English Eng-lish common law, and the legendary taboos of the savage tribes are but customs that have existed so long that they have crystallized Into law . !. . It Is not the law that makes the custom, cus-tom, but the custom that makes the Jaw, - and when statutes run counter to custom they are Impotent." Brand Whitlock's "The Law of the Land," in the Atlantic Monthly. |