Thoughts on law and justice - Wisdom from the ages

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If every lawyer, judge, and legislator heeded the words on the walls of the Harvard Law School we wouldn't be in the mess we're in - Let's start -
“An unjust law is no law at all.”
Saint Augustine (Augustine of Hippo) (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430)

Magna Carta of King John, A.D. 1215

“To no one will We sell, to none will We deny or defer, right or justice.”

http://library.law.harvard.edu/justicequotes/

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1. What say the reeds at Runnymede?

... And still when Mob or Monarch lays
Too rude a hand on English ways,
The whisper wakes, the shudder plays,
Across the reeds at Runnymede.
And Thames, that knows the moods of kings,
And crowds and priest and suchlike things,
Rolls deep and dreadful as he brings
Their warning down from Runnymede!

-- Rudyard Kipling