The Year of Pride and Praise
| dc.contributor.author | Black, Charles | |
| dc.date | 2021-11-25T13:34:25.000 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T11:39:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T11:39:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1987-01-01T00:00:00-08:00 | |
| dc.identifier | fss_papers/2536 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Charles L Black Jr, The Year of Pride and Praise, 67 BUL REV. 783 (1987). | |
| dc.identifier.contextkey | 1920046 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/1862 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This is the year for pride and for praise. Gladstone said it was "the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." When one is young, one smiles indulgently at such hyperbole; what an old windbag that Gladstone was! I got a little older, and one wise day I asked myself, "Alright, if not the American Constitution, then what is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the human mind and will?" I'm still asking. I haven't been sleeping with the Constitution at my bedside; it's just across the room. But I may move it closer, where I can stir and touch it during the night, just to remind myself, in these of all times, that fifty-five American people, in about a hundred days, could create such a thing, without even hurrying. | |
| dc.title | The Year of Pride and Praise | |
| dc.source.journaltitle | Faculty Scholarship Series | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-26T11:39:16Z | |
| dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2536 | |
| dc.identifier.legacyfulltext | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3523&context=fss_papers&unstamped=1 |
