lynch law
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Once the struggle against lynch law was won, the N.A.A.C.P. could give top priority to another drive�against segregated education.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.N.'s Trygve Lie snapped back: "I am taking orderly and legal measures . . . without recourse to lynch law and smear."
From Time Magazine Archive
Where people have the right of trial in a legally constituted court of law, they must refrain from mob rule or from lynch law.
From The Short Constitution by Russell, William F.
From that event many intelligent and conservative people associated slavery with lynch law and outrage upon the rights of free speech and popular assembly.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry
The safeguards of trial by jury, regular judicial procedure, and habeas corpus were established, in order that the methods of civilized life might take the place of the rough-and-ready justice of lynch law.
From History of the United States by Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin)
