Crossword-Solution: INVIOLABILITY 13 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

The generous patriotism and sound common sense of the great mass of our fellow-citizens will assuredly in time produce this result; for as every assumption of illegal power not only wounds the majesty of the law, but furnishes a pretext for abridging the liberties of the people, the latter have the most direct and permanent interest in preserving the landmarks of social order and maintaining on all occasions the inviolability of those constitutional and legal provisions which they themselves have made.

Panic seized him: fled his vision of inviolability; Fled the dream that he of mortals rode mischances predominant; And he cried, ‘Had I petitioned for a cup of chill aconite, My descent to awful Hades had been soft, for now must I go With the curse by father Zeus cast on ambition immoderate.

The true political principle is to assert the inviolability of the law, which, though not the best thing possible, is best for the imperfect condition of man.

The present constitution begins with declaring the inviolability of trial by jury and of habeas corpus,--"unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require its suspension." It does not say by whom it may be suspended, or who is to judge of the public safety, but, at any rate, it may be presumed that such suspension was supposed to come from the powers of the State which enacted the law.

Was it the business of other states to put a stop to this; were they constantly to keep the sword drawn to preserve the political inviolability of the Polish frontier? That would have been to demand a moral impossibility.