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Justice William O. Douglas: Public Advocate and Conservation Champion

We the People

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Is the Right of Privacy Convincing?

Douglas wrote that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbles formed by emanations from those guarantees. Justice Clarence Thomas famously has a plaque in his chamber's mocking Douglas's theory, please don't emanate in the penumbros. He was speaking to America at a time when we were coming out of World War II and highways were everywhere.

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