Old Age And Sickness Bring

Ambiguity Lurks In Generality, And May Thus Become An Instrument Of Severity.

Ultimately There Can Be No Freedom For Self Unless It Is Vouchsafed For Others; There Can Be No Security Where There Is Fear, And A Democratic Society Presupposes Confidence And Candor In The Relations Of Men With One Another And Eager Collaboration For The Larger Ends Of Life Instead Of The Pursuit Of Petty, Selfish Or Vainglorious Aims.

A Court Which Yields To The Popular Will Thereby Licenses Itself To Practice Despotism, For There Can Be No Assurance That It Will Not, On Another Occasion, Indulge Its Own Will.

Convictions Following The Admission Into Evidence Of Confessions Which Are Involuntary, I.e., The Product Of Coercion, Either Physical Or Psychological, Cannot Stand. This Is So Not Because Such Confessions Are Unlikely To Be True But Because The Methods Used To Extract Them Offend An Underlying Principle In The Enforcement Of Our Criminal Law: That Ours Is An Accusatorial, And Not An Inquisitorial, System - A System In Which The State Must Establish Guilt By Evidence Independently And Freely Secured, And May Not, By Coercion, Prove Its Charges Against An Accused Out Of His Own Mouth.

It Is Hostile To A Democratic System To Involve The Judiciary In The Politics Of The People.