Word: brennans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Supreme Court Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. on September 5 called for the high court to reverse its position and declare capital punishment unconstitutional...
...Brennan's speech was the 26th Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Lecture. He was the first sitting justice to deliver the annual address, which this year drew more than 1000 of those attending Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration...
After the address, Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29, a 1932 Law School graduate attending the anniversary, joined Brennan for a less formal discussion with about 200 law students...
...formal, 50-minute lecture, Brennan went beyond the question of capital punishment, discussing competing views of the high court's role...
...ruling on capital punishment, Brennan said, the court sometimes goes too far in trying to discern the intentions of the Constitution's 18th-century framers. He said the court should more actively interpret the law to bring about effects that benefit society...