Free Synagogue Pulpit, Vol. 5: Sermons and Addresses; 1918-1919 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Free Synagogue Pulpit, Vol. 5: Sermons and Addresses; 1918-1919

Law and order and the converse, liberty under law, are of the very essence of our American democracy, but it is our business to make law just and to human 1ze or socialize order, lest even under a nominally democratic régime law and order become the names of injustice and moral anarchy, clothed in the flexible forms of law, and thus it fail to equalize opportunity, to minimize the causes of poverty, to choke up the s...