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
Upon any theory, the prohibition of sorcery by the Pentateuch was no more answerable for these iniquities than its other prohibitions for the lynch law of the backwoods.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.
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)
Such bodies of state police, efficiently used, could not only prevent the lawlessness which frequently accompanies strikes, but it could gradually stamp out lynch law.
From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David
