Hugo Black's Pocket U.S. Constitution: 'Keep One on You All the Time'

Remembered by some as the "most remarkable Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century," Justice Hugo L. Black was an early proponent of a judicial revolution that rebuilt America by expanding individual rights under the law and empowering the federal government to address America's economic and social problems. In large part through Black's persistence and influence, the Supreme Court's reinterpretation of the Bill of Rights and other key amendments helped to unleash human productivity, economic prosperity, and civil rights across the nation. Justice Black almost always carried a pocket edition of the Constitution. In his reverence for and belief in it, Black called it "the best document in the world" to guide a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." He believed that everyone should own a copy of the Constitution. This modern pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution and its amendments is inspired by Justice Black's habit and example. The introduction is by biographer Steve Suitts, author of Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution.

Author: Steve Suitts
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 01/07/2020
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 6.00h x 4.00w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781588384157

About the Author
Suitts, Steve: - Steve Suitts is the author of Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution and the executive producer of Will the Circle Be Unbroken, a thirteen-hour Peabody-winning public radio series on the history of the Southern civil rights movement. He was a staff member of the Selma Project, was the founding director of the Alabama Civil Liberties Union, and later was executive director of the Southern Regional Council and then program coordinator, vice president, and senior fellow of the Southern Education Foundation. He lectures at Emory University and is chief strategist for Better Schools Better Jobs, a Mississippi-based education advocacy program. He lives in Atlanta.