No Office In The Land

The Indispensible Judicial Requisite Is Intellectual Humility.

Congress Is, After All, Not A Body Of Laymen Unfamiliar With The Commonplaces Of Our Law. This Legislation Was The Formulation Of The Two Judiciary Committees, All Of Whom Are Lawyers, And The Congress Is Predominately A Lawyers' Body.

Appeal Must Be To An Informed, Civically Militant Electorate.

Of Compelling Consideration Is The Fact That Words Acquire Scope And Function From The History Of Events Which They Summarize.

It Would Be A Stultification Of The Responsibility Which The Course Of Constitutional History Has Cast Upon This Court To Hold That In Order To Convict A Man The Police Cannot Extract By Force What Is In His Mind, But Can Extract What Is In His Stomach.