The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.

His family moved to California and then to Cleveland Washington. Moreover he was called on for similar projects and had saved $1000 by semester's end. He was the 79th person appointed and confirmed to the bench of that court.

William Orville Douglas (October 16 1898 – January 19 1980) served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the 79th person appointed and confirmed to the bench of that court.