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Show 66 5 that will. AgClin Thom.' not'. of ,law must be Itudied from the standpoint of his historic«loutlook., hi$ titude towarde_n,e, and his: general interpretation of political an; constitutional on, what had done in the past without regard for the data without referene. to hwitwtiem Anythtn9 that w. 41 the fU.ture would be undesirable to him. so constructed ef>the present and H is attitude toward the absolute and the reletlve is best Illustrated from his stotements with refer_ce to the Constitution of the United St...., G He would be adverse to wh. he caU. the precedent its toy and At Q liti",tlon, to 6 to what would be_me the .Ie whet weuld GOneem .f a turn legal G &lSh.U the law _velop in the spirit.f 'ime he asked:! api,fit ., tit,igofion, of conteat, spirit .f growth, r"ognra;n9 5 lawyer's low, treotment. 6 on Q cQlte, pt ....hing. ...ther That is, in In in ategery Glemandl.ng ,fuJler or sheU it develop or be its le"er? developed its CONt.t evc>lution ?I and then he answered Addren, NotJenollawyers' Guiid, lee. eit. Vol. 83, pp. AI43S-1438, (75th Congress, 3d _., 1 lWith us, hein as we are to the thinking which has alwG}'$ been related to the Idea of the higher absolute pe,fection# cCillI it God if you wi,h, or think of its medIum of operation, revelation, if you do desire, influences will come slowly. The frot of Q perfect law-giver h. been so much (I ptOcess of our thinking that it has been unquestioned. So much have we bee" partakers of this fundamwQJ rea" sontng that even to this dey we have thoughtl_ ones who tell us that there cannot be on International low because we hove no internotionollow-giv'er. Our reQlOn ing, our social conflich, our constitutional low system, are graded with its system of appeal to hisher authority, aU and in this great fundementol notion of the fiat and the ultimate flat-issuer. The premises behind th.e legal proeesses of our Ameriean consti-tutional system 011 reRect this age-old habit of thought. The system is good but ,It stands In need of (I tempering lnfluenee to remove It from the realm «t of the absolute. Ibld., p, 1437. Record, Coesslonol 38). -- Januory 5, |
