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LAW & HISTORY > supreme court justice > Hugo L Black
Our Constitution was...
Vendor: LAW & HISTORY
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
Source: Dissenting opinion in 6-2 ruling that upheld federal law making possession of heroin sufficient evidence of illegal importation of drugs, 20 Jan 1970.
-- Hugo L Black, (Feb 27 1886-1971), US supreme court justice; He was best known for his absolutist belief in the Bill of Rights as a guarantee of civil liberties; served on the Supreme Court for 34 years.