Featured event
February 13, 2019 at 7:00pm
“From William Penn to John Marshall to Robert H. Jackson”
Join us for our annual Jackson Day event on February 13, 2019 at 7pm at the Warren County Courthouse, featuring Hon. Max Baer of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
JACKSON CENTER EVENTS
This Day in Nuremberg
Lampe
On Jan. 5, 1946, French Prosecutor presented the first of seven witnesses on deportations and concentration camps. Maurice Lampe testified that he imprisoned in France by the Germans for two and one-half years beginning in Novemeber 1941. Then in March 944 he was interned in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria. Lampe testified that Himmler had visited Mauthausen to witness the shooting of fifty Soviet prisoner of war. Read More
The First Amendment grew out of an experience which taught that society cannot trust the conscience of a majority to keep its religious zeal within the limits that a free society can tolerate. I do not think it any more intended to leave the conscience of a minority to fix its limits. Civil government cannot let a group ride rough-shod over others simply because their "consciences" tell them to do so.
Douglas v. Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157 (1943) at 179