Social JusticeBy |
| Our prime concern is that in dealing with the
fundamental law of the land, in assuming finally to interpret
it, and therefore finally to make it, the acts of the courts
should be subject to and not above the final control of the
people as a whole. I deny that the American people have
surrendered to any set of men, no matter what their position or
their character, the final right to determine those fundamental
questions upon which free self-government ultimately depends.
The people themselves must be the ultimate makers of their own Constitution, and where their agents differ in their interpretations of the Constitution the people themselves should be given the chance, after full and deliberate judgment, authoritatively to settle what interpretation it is that their representatives shall thereafter adopt as binding. |
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| We do not question the general honesty of the courts.
But in applying to present-day social conditions the
general prohibitions that were intended originally as
safeguards to the citizen against the arbitrary power of
government in the hands of caste and privilege, these
prohibitions have been turned by the courts from safeguards
against political and social privilege into barriers against
political and social justice and advancement. |
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