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Noah Feldman
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in Boston, MA, The United States
May 20, 1970
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“To Douglas, the case turned on the purpose of the First Amendment. The judge had told the jury that in Chicago, it was unlawful to invite dispute. It followed that the conviction should be overturned. After all, he wrote, “a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging.”49”
― Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
― Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
“In 1984, Fred Korematsu went back to federal court, seeking to have his conviction voided retroactively on the theory that the government had withheld crucial facts from the judiciary. The court agreed with him. The Department of Justice and the Army, it found, had distorted the record to make it appear that there was a legitimate security concern.113 A few years later, Congress granted reparations of twenty thousand dollars to each Japanese-American who had been interned.”
― Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
― Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
“The entire edifice of constitution building rested on a republican article of faith: in the people. Ultimately, the people would have to choose the government—and would have to vote it out of power if it oppressed them: “To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men; so that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.”149”
― The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
― The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
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