Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What followed was a rough-and-tumble on the virtues and vices of legal education--among other things. For most of the hour, Morgan held onto the reins, whipping his audience through a succession of personal holdings-forth: Morgan on liberals, Morgan on law, Morgan on Harvard, and Morgan on Morgan...
...Morgan accused Harvard of over-rationalizing the law: "It's all procedural. It's a way not to do anything for folks--that's what Frankfurterism is. There are plenty of true American heroes in the law, but this law school makes a hero out of Frankfurter...
...they heard of Judge Frank M. Johnson, a liberal district court justice in Alabama, who made several landmark civil rights decisions? Morgan challenged the audience. Silence. Morgan smiled. How about Judge Skelly Wright, lately of New Orleans? One law student answered in the affirmative. "Oh yeah," Morgan came back. "He left New Orleans and moved to Washington--got close enough to Boston for the shuttle...
...Morgan began slinging punches as the defender of "the people." He talked repeatedly about the trend of American life--and especially of the legal profession--away from the rights of individuals. "Lawyers start to think of themselves as different from the people--as a class unto themselves," he said...
...Morgan went into a digression about international corporatism as the greatest enemy to individual freedoms, and said he would not defend corporate rights even though they are legally defined just the same as individual rights: "No Supreme Court is ever going to convince me that a corporation is an individual. I didn't have to watch Allende's death to learn what multinational corporations are doing...