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Sunday
11Oct2009

Legal process is essential to the democratic process

DateSunday, October 11, 2009 at 1:50AM

In our country law is not a body of technicalities in the keeping of specialists or in the service of any special interest. There can be no free society without law administered through an independent judiciary. If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process. (Frankfurter, 1947)

Source:
UNITED STATES v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA. SAME v. LEWIS, JOHN L. President of United Mine Workers of America., 330 U.S. 258 (The Supreme Court March 6, 1947).

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