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FRIDAY. MAY 22J292

ultiple stress on po-
litical roles in our
American society,
with an equal emergence
among the youth of our
nation reaching into
government careers, is ac-
companied by challenges.
Recognition of what is
occurring now affects the
commitments that must be
viewed as urgent in the
selection of our leadership. It
involves not only the
legislative but also the polic-
ing aspects of our lives.
Racial issues are not to be
ignored. The latest occur-
rence in Los Angeles may
plague us for a long time un-
til we have a genuine way to
erase hatreds and invite
honorable citizenship.
In view of what is occurr-
ing, scores upon scores of
related responsibilities de-
mand leadership whose in-
telligence is dependent upon
and rooted in knowledge of
the legacies based upon
pride in and devotion to
America.
It is on this score that we
must treat the values that
are being tested as we begin
to judge who will be in the
White House in 1993. It
should not be too much to
ask that every aspirant for a
public career role should be
a trained and educated
American who sees his
obligations toward the peo-
ple and the nation.
Nearly everything that
confronts us in life today
relates to the basic prin-
ciples of American idealism
and to the protection of our
legacies and our constitu-
tional rights. A fellow
Detroiter who specializes in
that subject provides us with
guidance in that respect.
Professor Harold Norris, for
more than 30 years a promi-
nent member of the faculty
of the Detroit College of
Law, made a study of related
issues in his most recent
work, Education for Popular
Sovereignty Through
Implementation of the Con-
stitution and the Bill of

Rights.

He advances serious
challenges by posing this
definitive principle:
There has been develop-
ing during the years
following World War II an
extraconstitutional men-
tality that is very bad for
liberty and security of all

Harold Norris

Amerirans and especially
bad for minorities in-
cluding Jewry.
Professor Norris puts us to
the test of being able to:
... protect the integrity
of the whole Constitution
and its processes. Only to
the degree that we protect
the integrity of the Con-
stitution and its processes
will we be protecting • our
security and our liberty,
our autonomy and our
privacy, our religion and
our conscience. By persis-
tent and comprehensive
vigilance will we protect
our right to choose our
own way, our own pursuit
of life, liberty and hap-
piness. The whole of the
Constitution and the
whole of the American
people are bound up
together.
It is at this point that Pro-
fessor Norris invites us to
share in the wisdom of
Supreme Court Justice
Louis D. Brandies and his
advice on the protection of

We must treat
values that are
being tested as we
begin to judge who
will be in the White
House in 1993.

our constitutionality. Here
is how Professor Norris
draws upon the Brandeis
definition:
Justice Brandeis was of
the view that the security
and liberty of the whole of
the American people and
the whole of American
Jewry were bound up in
the whole of the American
Constitution. Our interest
as Americans and as Jews

in the integrity of the
whole of the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights is
one and inseparable. We
are al_' -- keepers of our
brothers security. We are
all keepers. of, our sisters'
liberty. We must nroceed
with full commitment to
protecting the right of all
to be different. in the
words of Hillel: I be
only for myself, what am
I? If . 11-
.t for myself,
who
S d for me? If not
now, when?"
This is how we learn to
confront the many issues
that attack us. We are guid-
ed toward humanism and
perhaps it will encourage
ways with which to prevent
the heartlessness that apse
from a tragic court dedisibn_
in Los Angeles.
In the interest of Andy
draw upon,::'
other inspiration appearii ;:
in a supplementary work by
Professor Norris: An Ameri-
can Mural: The Liberty Bell
and Other Selected and New
Poetry.
The following poem is
valuable for the principles
evaluated in this study:

The Liberty Bell
by Harold Norris

Does the Liberty Bell lie in
state
Silent as monuments to the
great
With symbolism out of date
And sound as hollow as its
fate.

Or can you in your inner ear
The proclamation hear
When your newspaper is near
When your conscience is clear
When you vote without fear
When children sing and
cheer.

Is there a sound effect,
You can detect in
Your right to speak
Your right to seek,
Your right to read
Your right to lead,
Your right to choose
Your right to prove,
Your right to fight
Your right to strike,
Your right to pray
You right to doubt, shout,
know, grow, propose, op-
pose, elect, reject, expect,
protect;
Your right to in your own
way find
Your own inscrutable mind.

Listen in the night
Listen with all your might
With all your common sense
Now and in our future tense
Listen in the light

