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THE PROFESSIONAL PROSECUTOR.

Authors :
Moss, Frank E.
Nedrud, Duane R.
Source :
Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology & Police Science; Nov/Dec1960, Vol. 51 Issue 4, p461-464, 4p
Publication Year :
1960

Abstract

This article presents the text of a speech delivered by Honorable Frank E. Moss, a U.S. Senator from the state of Utah. Today the principles of freedom and fair play are being challenged and opposed around the world by totalitarian ideology that denies the existence of God and subjects the individual to arbitrary naked power of the state. The greatest threat to the Rule of Law in any of the nations of our free world is the danger that the people will become dissatisfied with the functioning of their system of, justice and do irreparable injury to it, without realizing that by so doing they are destroying the very foundation of the Rule of Law in their society. It is our professional responsibility to keep the pulse of life beating strongly in the law. We cannot do this by treating our fundamental freedoms as abstract theoretical concepts of a legal system. The people of the free world must learn to believe those freedoms to be what we believe them to be, the practical dynamic concepts for living, unalienable in every human being. In earlier days the status of law in other nations Obviously, our system is under attack and tremendous pressure from without.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00220205
Volume :
51
Issue :
4
Database :
Supplemental Index
Journal :
Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology & Police Science
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
16638578
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.2307/1140671