contempt of law

Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln."

A number of judges have denounced the newspaper's action, and a spokesman for the Attorney General's office said today that it was exploring a formal contempt of law charge.

To see him, the good man, falling deeper and deeper into what must seem to him unbridled sin, stirred in her that bitter contempt of law and order which Newgate had nurtured in her.

Human power is weakened, if separated from God the Creator and Ruler of the Universe, resulting in contempt of law and crime, Human authority fails where religion, which authorizes it, is set aside.