Anthony Holden Quotes
When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'
Holden, Anthony. Interview. Frontline: The Princess and the Press, PBS, 1997.
The conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln were tried, found guilty, sentenced and hanged by a military tribunal. Not everyone agreed that such a process was lawful or desirable. Bates believed also that the effect was to make martyrs of the conspirators.
This statement was an extension of the famous quotation of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. {603715}.
The first Jew to run for the Vice Presidency on a major party ticket.
The two law enforcement officers had testified that they arrested demonstrators who had “come to break the law” and had not at that point broken any laws.
And let the sheriffs who have arrested them bring them before the justice without any other summons.
This assize is generally considered to be the first written specification of due process in English Common Law.
This quotation shows that “due process” was an important principle for the colonists long before the American Revolution and the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Rights. Connecticut and New York passed similar laws after Massachusetts.
This was America’s first Presidential impeachment which occurred just a few years after America’s greatest crisis—the Civil War. It was handled in an orderly, serious manner following the law throughout.
Judges were commonly granting injunctions against unions that were boycotting companies, which was then against the law. However, no judge had ever given an injunction against a company to stop them from boycotting individual workers who were known union organizers. Taft, who had a distinguished career as a Judge earlier in his career shocked the business world and delighted organized labor. Considered politically, a Republican running for President publicly advocated a new right and protection for labor organizing, when his party was supposed to protect companies against Labor. Taft however, was not an ideologue, but was a very fair man, and to him this particular issue was simple. Veteran politicians thought that he should have ducked the question, as he would offend much of the Republican base, but he was used to that being the number 2 man in Theodore Roosevelt’s Administration.
Anthony Holden is an English writer, broadcaster and critic, particularly known as a biographer of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Leigh Hunt, Lorenzo da Ponte and Laurence Olivier, and of members of the British royal family, notably Charles, Prince of Wales. He has also published translations of opera and Ancient Greek poetry as well as several autobiographical books about poker. In 2009, he was elected the first President of the International Federation of Poker (IFP).
