THE ADVOCATE Newsletter of The Baltimore County Bar Association VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 10
April 2019
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Rebecca A. Fleming On February 5, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed that May 1st would be recognized as Law Day. He believed that the world faced a choice between force and law, and that civilization had to choose the rule of law if it wanted to survive. Following President Eisenhower’s lead, in 1961, Congress issued a joint resolution designating May 1st as the official date for celebrating Law Day each year. I had to conduct some research on this, but apparently several decades ago Congress was able to pass joint resolutions to mark something that was important to everyone, rather than to make a purely political or partisan statement. Every President since then has issued a Law Day Proclamation on May 1st to commemorate the country’s commitment to the rule of law. For those who are wondering, yes, President Trump issued a Law Day Proclamation on May 1, 2017 and May 1, 2018. Those proclamations were made publicly available on
the website of the White House, and NOT on Twitter. I do not know how to use twitter, but I do believe that the proclamations that I read were too long to fit into one tweet. If you are slightly nerdy like I am, you can read the annual Presidential proclamations, each of which addresses the particular theme for the annual event. Law Day is intended to reflect on the role of law in the foundation of our country and to recognize its importance for society. To commemorate Law Day, each year the American Bar Association selects a Law Day theme and promotes that theme, encouraging state and local bar associations to engage in programming and events to celebrate the theme. The ABA actually presents awards to bar associations that provide outstanding activities to recognize Law Day. Continued on page 2
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