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Good. 194 pages; Smudging (minor stains) to covers. Inscription on title page. No markings on text pages or major defects.; -We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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Very good(-) in very good(-) jacket. 8vo, white cloth, d.w. lightly soiled, lower right corner margin of first two pages of introduction lacking. New York: Trident Press, 1963.
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Good. Lightly tanned pages with some tears at edges; no marks and otherwise in good condition. Binding is solid. Cover is clean and unworn.; The Credo series; 7.90 X 5.40 X 1 inches; 194 pages.
Edition:
First Pocket Cardinal Edition, First printing [stated]
Publisher:
Pocket Books, Inc
Published:
1964
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13469935325
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Good. No dust jacket. Some water staining on some pages, all pages separate and complete. xxv, [1], 194 p. 21 cm. Notes. THis was one of The Credo series, planned and edited by Ruth Nhnda Anshen. The Credo Series sought to define the new reality in wich the estrangement of amn and his work, resulting in the self-estrangement in man's existence, was overcome. From Wikipedia: William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 January 19, 1980) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. With a term lasting 36 years and 209 days, he was one of the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court. In 1975, a Time article called Douglas "the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court." During that time, he also established the records for the most opinions written, the most dissents written, the most speeches given, and the most books authored by any member of the Supreme Court. None of his successors has surpassed these records....general, legal scholars have noted that Douglas's judicial style was unusual in that he did not attempt to elaborate justifications for his judicial positions on the basis of text, history, or precedent. Instead, Douglas was known for writing short, pithy opinions which relied on philosophical insights, observations about current politics, and literature, as much as more conventional "judicial" sources. Ultimately, he believed that a judge's role was "not neutral." "The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people...." On the bench Douglas became known as a strong advocate of First Amendment rights. With fellow Justice Hugo Black, Douglas argued for a "literalist" interpretation of the First Amendment, insisting that the First Amendment's command that "no law" shall restrict freedom of speech should be interpreted literally. He wrote the opinion in Terminiello v. City of Chicago (1949) overturning the conviction of a Catholic priest who allegedly caused a "breach of the peace" by making anti-Semitic comments during a raucous public speech. Douglas, joined by Black, furthered his advocacy of a broad reading of First Amendment rights by dissenting from the Supreme Court's decision in Dennis v. United States (1952) affirming the conviction of the leader of the U.S. Communist Party. In 1944 Douglas voted with the majority to uphold Japanese wartime internment, in Korematsu v. United States, but over the course of his career he grew to become a leading advocate of individual rights. Suspicious of majority rule as it related to social and moral questions, he frequently expressed concern at forced conformity with "the Establishment" in his opinions. For example, Douglas wrote the lead opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut, finding a "right to privacy" in the "penumbras" of the first eight amendments of the Bill of Rights This went too far for his old ally Black, who dissented in Griswold. Douglas and Black also disagreed in Fortson v. Morris, the 1967 decision which cleared the path for the Georgia State Legislature to choose the governor in the deadlocked 1966 race between Democrat Lester Maddox and Republican Howard Callaway. Whereas Black voted with the majority under strict construction to uphold the state constitutional provision, Douglas and Abe Fortas dissented. According to Douglas, Georgia tradition would guarantee a Maddox victory though he had trailed Callaway by some three thousand votes in the general election returns. Douglas also saw the issue as a continuation of the earlier decision Gray v. Sanders, which had struck down Georgia's County Unit System, a kind of electoral college formerly used to choose the governor.
