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" According to the testimony of careful observers, it is very seldom abused, and its proceedings are generally conducted with some regularity of form as well as fairness of spirit. What are the circumstances? Those highly technical rules of judicial procedure... "
Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism - Page 144
by Richard Maxwell Brown - 1975 - 408 pages
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The American Commonwealth: The party system. Public opinion. Illustrations ...

James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1894 - 922 pages
...far removed from arbitrary violence. According to the testimony of careful observers, it is not often abused, and its proceedings are generally conducted...of form as well as fairness of spirit. What are the circum stances ? Those highly technical rules of judicial procedure and still more technical rules...
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A Little Tour in America

Samuel Reynolds Hole - Atlantic States - 1895 - 494 pages
...far removed from arbitrary violence. According to the testimony of careful observers, it is not often abused, and its proceedings are generally conducted...and which have in some States retained antiquated minutiaj, now expunged from English practice, or been rendered by new legislation too favourable to...
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The party system. Public opinion. Illustrations and reflexions. Social ...

James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1900 - 924 pages
...far removed from arbitrary violence. According to the testimony of careful observers, it is not often abused, and its proceedings are generally conducted...regularity of form as well as fairness of spirit. What aro the circumstances ? Those highly technical rules of judicial procedure and still more technical...
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University Chronicle, Volume 2

United States - 1899 - 534 pages
...shocking as it may seem, is far removed from arbitrary violence, that it is not often abused, and that its proceedings are generally conducted with some regularity of form as well as fairness of spirit ; " yet no one can deny that it is a form of lawlessness, and therefore in view of the figures just...
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The American Commonwealth, Volume 2

James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Constitutional law - 1908 - 864 pages
...such a region could not be effectively performed except at a cost disproportionate to the result.' Lynch law is not unknown in more civilized regions,...and which have in some States retained antiquated minutia? now expunged from English practice, or been rendered by new legislation too favourable to...
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Bryce on American Democracy: Selections from "The American Commonwealth" and ...

James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Citizenship - 1919 - 426 pages
...removed from arbitrary violence. Ac- 5 cording to the testimony of careful observers, it is not often abused, and its proceedings are generally conducted...judicial procedure and still more technical rules 10 of evidence which America owes to the English common law, and which have in some States retained...
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Civic Sociology: A Textbook in Social and Civic Problems for Young Americans

Edward Alsworth Ross - Civics - 1925 - 394 pages
...were available. A generation ago Mr. James Bryce could testify that in the United States lynch law " is very seldom abused and its proceedings are generally...regularity of form as well as fairness of spirit." One wonders what he would say now of the fact that 4000 persons appear to have been lynched in this...
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Even More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis

Thomas Heine Nielsen - Cities and towns, Ancient - 2002 - 310 pages
...violence. According to the testimony of careful observers, it is very seldom abused, and its procedures are generally conducted with some regularity of form as well as fairness of spirit." Bryce (1888) quoted in Brown (1975) 144-5. 86 The sentence as well as other relevant documents are...
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