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Justice Black, The Demonstrators, And A Constitutional Rule Of Law, Charles E. Rice

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In evaluating here briefly a jurist whose career as a shaper of the fundamental law has spanned the past three decades, one treads warily for fear of oversimplification. It would be an easy thing to categorize such a man as Justice Black, to pigeonhole him and his philosophy in the compartment marked "liberal" or "activist" and to let it go at that, serene in the thought that the classification had exhausted the subject. But such a categorization would be illusory and perilous were it not hedged about by those qualifications required in an evaluation of a productive mind.