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Show "The Dear People Are Presumed to Keep Apace With All the Law" By ROBERT W. BESSE, Sterling, 111. A close analysis of the situation discloses that the American people peo-ple are getting away from the idea which stimulated the statesmen of those early days, to solve the problems that the people might be free in speech and comfort, and that all government came from the people. On the contrary, now the states have a notion that the government is all powerful and that the people are mere subjects, to do the will of any notion they choose to write upon the statute books, and they write plenty of notions into laws, and everybody is presumed to know the law. That stands very well as a legal presumption, but, practically, if every one were to know the law he would have to read continuously for 600 years, and then remember all he read. A lawyer is considered very capable if he is able to find the law, and more capable if he is able to interpret it in accordance with the last Supreme court decision, but the dear people are presumed to keep apace with all the law and then abide by it as their rule of conduct and keep out of trouble. |