Equal Justice Under the Law: The Supreme Court in American Life (Signed by all 9 Supreme Court Justices of the Warren Court)

Harrell, Mary Ann

 Washington, D.C. : Foundation of the Federal Bar Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society, 1965

[Signed by Warren Court Supreme Court Justices]  Signed on title by Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Associate Justices: Hugo L. Black, William O. Douglas, Tom C. Clark, John M. Harlan, William J. Brennan, Potter Stewart. Byron R. White, and Abe Fortas.  The Warren Court Justices are shown in a casual, full page photo on page 11.  Light foxing.  All nine signatures clear and legible.  

The Warren Court was famous for its expansive rulings extending individual rights.   The book's title, "Equal Justice Under Law" is in steps with the Warren Court's attempt to nationalization of the Bill of Rights and Fourteenth Amendment.  (Notably through school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954; Repportionment in Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims; Due process and defendant rights in Gideon v. Wainwright, Mapp v. Ohio, Miranda v. Arizona, Robinson v. California; and First Amendment rights in in Engel v. Vitale, as well as the right to privacy in Griswold v. Connecticut; etc. )  An interesting contemporary review by E. C. Bolmeier states, "Undoubtedly much of the unfavorable reaction is the result of changing judicial interpretations of the "equal protection" phrase contained in the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.  Evidence of this may be gleaned from various lay and professional publications following the Supreme Court decisions concerning school segregation and religious instruction in the public schools.  It should be concern of educators ... that many adults, including public officials, heap scorn upon our highest arbiter of law and justice.  ... Some dissenters go so far as to encourage defiance and violation of the law of the land the crippling of the institution designed to defend it." Bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, 50(306), 114–120, 1966.