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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
REPORTS,
By Rep. Burr P. Harrison
.Relatively few citizens, even among those who are practicing lawyers, find it necessary to occupy themselves extensively with problems of Constitutional law.
In school days, most of us became acquainted with this remarkable document as the framework of our governmental system, the essential structure of law and order fashioned by the Founding Fathers to serve the long succession of American generations.
Even if we cannot recite significant portions of it, most of us regard the Constitution as an instrument of defense against oppression, despotism, and disorder.
In recent years, however, we , have seen the steady progress of a calculated effort to uproot deepseated principles of community conduct and to impress rigid Federal controls on our local ways of life, all in the name of Constitutional directive.
Can it be that the Constitution has become a mocking idol, returning a whiplash, for our reverence?
Before we reject our Constitution as a protector who has played us false, however, let us remem' her that what Mr. Warren and • his colleagues write merely represents what the justices of the Supreme Court decide the Constitution ought to mean, whether if really means that or not.
For more than 20 years, the Supreme Court has been devoting itself more to rewriting the Constitution than to interpreting it.
This legislation by judicial fiat is stripping the States and their citizens of the rights which the draftsmen of the Constitution took such pains to protect. The justices ■re proceeding sedulously to fashion additional clubs for the arro
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