Sentences with phrase «most sacred principle»

They treat all offenders the same, when the most sacred principle of American sentencing law is that punishment should fit the individual and the crime.

Then there's that most sacred principle in the American criminal justice system that says «innocent until proven guilty.»

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It is one evidence of how sweeping was this establishment of independent territories that the ideal of academic freedom now emerged as the most sacred of all principles within the new academic professions.