Show LAWS THAT ARE AEE NOT LAWS THE administration of criminal justice in america la Is a disgrace to civilization civilizations the man who mho said that Is the chief justice of the supreme court of the united states the non lion william howard tatt taft once president of 0 the united states we have too many laws which are not laws A citizen can hardly go about his dally daily business without violating some law 0 at which he never heard beard and which nobody obeys in connecticut it Is illegal to travel on the road or rall railroad road on sunday in new york it Is or was until very recently illegal to operate a motor propelled prop e lied vehicle on a highway unless a man on horseback carrying a red flag or lantern rode a quarter of a mile ahead of 0 it congress ak and state legislatures try to make in e laws no law Is a good law unless the people whom it affects agree that it Is a good law in the early days of popular lawmaking people gathered to tell each other what the law was mas in their districts the law being rules of conduct agreed on by common consent the idea that a congress or a legislature has a right to impose an unpopular law Is a reversion to the old myth of the divine right of kings because a law Is old Is 19 no proof that it Is good times C hange change but bat the law lags behind belil nd f lawyers and judges live in the past lawyers la dominate our legislative bodies and try to make new laws lams intended to fit present conditions comply with prin c aples and practices long outdated one result resu it of this Is that law and justice often mean two diff ail erent Terent things poor men and honest men hesitate to go to I 1 law haw they tear fear legal technicalities which have no relation to justice all law ought to be based on common sense and so plain and bimble that any manewith man with an average sense of 0 fair play could tell without asking a lawyer whether he was violating the law or not then everybody else mould know it and intelligent public opinion alone would bep us all on the right side bide of the law I 1 pu punish nish us promptly it vi ne e overstepped over stepped a 0 line |