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Article: A Justice for All: William J. Brennan, Jr., and the Decisions that Transformed America.
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- October 7, 1994
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Several significant judicial biographies have appeared in the past few years. It would be interesting to speculate about the reasons for this. Perhaps as we continue to engage in what appears to be a national identity crisis the lives of judges, dedicated as they are to explicating the constitutional principles that hold the nation together, have a talismanic affect. It is therefore doubly interesting to find in these biographies of William Brennan and Learned Hand, that the judges themselves have such differing perspectives about the Constitution and its interpretation.
Justice Brennan and Judge Hand (though considered for years to be the "tenth justice," Hand ...
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