Word: dorsen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result was what New York University Law Professor Norman Dorsen calls "a fundamental reorientation of the court's role." The Warren court, says Dorsen, "moved dramatically from deference to the prerogatives of the other two branches of the Federal Government and of the states to aggressive protection of the rights of the individual." Leon Friedman, co-editor of a forthcoming history entitled The Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-1969, describes the change in another way: "The magic thing that the court has done is to have initiated a new moral sense in the country, a direction that...
Other officers include Ronald Mitchell '64, vice-president; Dorsen Hazel '64, secretary; Charles J. Beard II '66, treasurer; and James W. Wiley '65, chairman of the publicity committee...