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Legislative Investigations: Safeguards For Witnesses, Joseph O'Meara

Journal Articles

A free and independent legislature is the hallmark of democracy. The power of investigation is essential to proper discharge of responsibilities, but that the investigative power has been abused' and that it is the obligation of the bar to find an answer to the resulting problem. The surrender of principle is the death of Justice and, without Justice, there is chaos, and total disregard of the dignity and destiny of man. One aspect of the challenge the legal profession confronts today is how to assure due process of law for witnesses in legislative investigations without unduly hampering legislative functions. The …

Our Forgotten Finding Of Fact, Clarence Emmett Manion

Journal Articles

It has been my happy experience during the past half dozen years to be closely and professionally associated with three members of this association, Mr. Tracy Griffin, Mr. Holman and Mr. A. Schweppe. In my judgment these are three of the most representative, the most erudite and most patriotic members of the Bar to be found anywhere.

If they are representative of the Washington State Bar Association, then indeed it is a great honor for me or anybody else to have the privilege of addressing you, and I so regarded it and so accepted the invitation.

I have studied your …

Religious Education And The Historical Method Of Constitution Interpretation - A Review Article, Robert E. Rodes

Journal Articles

Confusion Twice Confounded is sufficiently typical of a growing body of literature to warrant more extensive treatment than is usually accorded in a book review. It analyzes at great length the opinions in the Everson and McCollum cases and criticizes them in the light of the historical background of the First Amendment. Everson, it will be recalled, derived from the Founding Fathers the doctrine that the Constitution required a "wall of separation between church and state," which was not breached by public payment of transportation to and from parochial schools. McCollum used the test laid down in Everson to invalidate …