Word: fortases
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Still, the great controversies of the Warren era? civil rights, reapportionment and criminal justice? have largely been decided and the decisions are largely irreversible. "The work of the Warren era is finished," Fortas said last week. "It's done? magnificently. It was the greatest era of court history since John...
Some scholars see the next few years as a period of consolidation in which the Fortas court will refine and clarify the sometimes cluttered landmarks of the Warren era. Others, like Yale's Bickel, suspect that the Fortas court may have even bigger problems, exert even a greater influence on...
If the new Chief Justice has the good fortune to remain active as long as Warren has? he is 77? there will still be a Fortas court in 1987. If he lasts as long as Mr. Justice Holmes, who retired at 90, there will be a Fortas court in 2000...
In a recent pamphlet, Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience, Fortas spoke forcefully of the need for order?and the right of dissent. The law, he believes, must be a living thing, responsive to social reality and human needs.
It must interest itself, he once wrote, "not in the mere learning of good and evil but in the practice of reasonably mature individual and community living." This comes about, he added, "not through the application of doctrine, but through the application of reason and humanity, maturely, to the complex...