The Idea; A Sign of the Times, Vol. 4: January 1, 1910 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The idea claims that the people, who are sovereign in the democratic State of Virginia, have much more right to take the law into their own hands than any servant of the people has, for the people are the rulers and the law is their creature, while the Mayor is simply a creature and servant of the law and under the law, in a double sense. The order is this: The People, The Law, The Servants of the Law. And who will dare say that the people who make the law have not more right to set it aside than the servants who are made by that law. Yet the Richmond times-dispatch, Supreme in Virginia, condemns the people for taking the law into their own hands and refuses to raise a voice in condemnation of a petty servant, who, by his acts, is bringing not only disgrace on the city, but what is far worse, bringing into contempt our democratic institutions and bringing about a reign of crime and disregard for all law and order.

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