TAILIEUCHUNG - THE CONSTITUTION OF LAW Part 4

Tôi chỉ nói về tiềm năng của pháp luật để cung cấp cho chúng tôi với các nguồn lực về đạo đức trong thời gian căng thẳng. Trong việc đưa ra yêu cầu bồi thường, điều quan trọng là đặt sự nhấn mạnh vào 'chúng ta' và không 'luật'. Nó sẽ là một sai lầm khi nghĩ rằng các thẩm phán hoặc pháp luật có thể cứu chúng ta trong những lúc căng thẳng. | 64 LEGALITY in a time of emergency Even worse these judges have made their decisions in full awareness of the past so with the complete benefit of foresight. And they have done so at a time when in Canada and the United Kingdom their jurisdictions had either enacted or entrenched legal protections for human rights and at a time when in all three jurisdictions judges had gone a long way in developing the common law understanding of the rule of law in ways consistent with the postwar drive to protect human rights. I do want to sound one very necessary cautionary note. I just spoke about law s potential to provide us with moral resources in times of stress. In making that claim it is important to put the emphasis on us and not law . It would be a mistake to think that judges or the law can save us in times of stress. The first president of postwar Germany made the point that the collapse of the Weimar Republic took place not because of flaws in the Weimar Constitution but because in Germany s first experiment with democracy there were not enough democrats. Similarly without enough believers in the rule of law law cannot deliver its resources to us. Moreover it is not enough that many lawyers and judges are committed to the rule of law. It is important indeed much more important that politicians public officials journalists and plain we the people share this commitment. But to say that public opinion is the ultimate basis of the rule of law does not make its principles contingent on what the public thinks. Towards the end of his dissent in Korematsu Justice Jackson said that that the courts wield no power equal to restraining the command of the war power should the people let it fall into irresponsible and unscrupulous hands . Thus he concluded that the chief restraint upon those who command the physical forces of the country in the future as in the past must be their responsibility to the political judgments of their contemporaries and to the moral judgments of .

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