Civil Rights in Times of Economic Stress -- Jurisprudential and Philosophic Aspects

Abstract

Though the program does not say so, I have to mention that, in the correspondence leading to my having the pleasure of being here tonight, I was asked to address myself in particular to the philosophic and jurisprudential aspects of our general subject. This topic or, rather, this wide subject-might be thought an invitation to vagueness. I cannot claim that, in trying to get my thoughts together, I have altogether and firmly declined this invitation. I shall have to let you be the judges as to whether I have declined it at all; my hope will have to be that my vaguenesses will engender some more concrete ideas in your minds, and I console myself with the thought that I am to be followed by someone who may explore some of the more concrete legal problems.