What Price Does A Country’s Integrity Command?
| by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena
Courtesy: the Sunday Times, Colombo
( October 5, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) In these perilous times, Sri Lanka faces possibly its severest test of democratic strength since the granting of independence. A dearly loved judicial philosopher in the United States, the late Judge Learned Hand (1872 –1961) said it best when he warned that ‘liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.’
