Hugo Black’s Pocket U.S. Structure: ‘Hold One on You All of the Time’

Remembered by some because the “most outstanding Supreme Court docket justice of the 20 th century,” Justice Hugo L. Black was an early proponent of a judicial revolution that rebuilt America by increasing particular person rights below the regulation and empowering the federal authorities to handle America’s financial and social issues. Largely by means of Black’s persistence and affect, the Supreme Court docket’s reinterpretation of the Invoice of Rights and different key amendments helped to unleash human productiveness, financial prosperity, and civil rights throughout the nation. Justice Black virtually at all times carried a pocket version of the Structure. In his reverence for and perception in it, Black referred to as it “one of the best doc on this planet” to information a authorities “of the folks, by the folks, and for the folks.” He believed that everybody ought to personal a replica of the Structure. This contemporary pocket version of the U.S. Structure and its amendments is impressed by Justice Black’s behavior and instance. The introduction is by biographer Steve Suitts, creator of
Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Profession Formed the Nice Champion of the Structure.