From the light to the more serious vein, Judge Helmick dwelt for some time on the heritage of the common law in England and the United States, This heritage was now in peril, he emphasized, owing to the actions of others. It was a philosophy of human condvet as between man and his fellow man which should be preerved at all costs. It was also political end. After dealing with a umber of points supporting the urgency of the need for preser 4 he common law heritage, he con: cluded on the wote that the heritage was that the state was for the citizen ind not the citizen for the state.
He warned his hearers of the dangers to this heritage now extant other ideologies. The heritage diejoproved of assassination as a political reopen: it stipulated for fair and not nick trials for its citizens: it stood lor personal liberty: and justice be tween the Fich and the poor. All this was now in danger.
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