William O. Douglas, William Douglas 

Content:
I. July : The declaration of independence -- The aims of the declaration -- The impact of the declaration -- The forces behind the American revolution -- National fast days -- Independence of the Philippines -- Samuel Adams -- The trial of trade unionists -- The northwest ordinance -- The alien and sedition laws -- Prosecutions under the alien and sedition laws -- The reaction to the alien and sedition laws -- Treason under the constitution -- Compulsory process for obtaining witnesses -- Cruel and inhuman punishments -- Slum clearance -- Speedy trial -- Public trial -- Place of trial -- Trial for contempt of court -- Clergymen as public officials -- Immunity of the priest as a witness -- Sunday laws -- The fourteenth amendment -- The bonus army -- Slave labor vs. wage earners -- Lincoln-Douglas debates -- II. August : The star chamber -- The oath ex officio -- The high commission -- The trial of Zenger -- The progressive party -- The law of obscenity -- The book Ulysses -- Unofficial censorship -- Jefferson on censorship -- Censorship and the press -- Dissenting opinions -- Hughes on dissents -- Jefferson and the patent laws -- Operation of the patent system -- The income tax -- Roosevelt and the farm problem -- Stare decisis -- Maryland and anti-Semitism -- Soil conservation districts -- Colonial judges and search warrants -- The New England courant -- Recall of judges -- Sacco and Vanzetti -- Trial of William Bradford -- Reforms following Sacco and Vanzetti -- Women's suffrage -- Independence of the judiciary -- Impeachment of judges -- Investigation of federal judges -- Impeachment of James E. Ferguson -- Harvard and academic freedom -- III. September : A veto by Alfred E. Smith -- Robert M. Hutchins on education -- An atheist as a witness -- Time out for voting -- The trial of William Penn -- William Penn's judge -- Judicial misconduct -- Disbarment of a lawyer -- Abraham Lincoln attorney -- Banishment -- Boston police strike -- Robert M. La Follette -- Schism in the classes -- Migrant labor -- The great compromise -- Slavery and the constitution -- Adoption of the constitution -- Fugitive slave act -- Washington's farewell address -- Trial by ordeal -- Witchcraft in England -- Witchcraft in New England -- Kangaroo courts -- Declaration of the rights of man -- The bill of rights -- The hatch act -- The right to work -- The informed -- The freedom of the sweatshop -- The general welfare -- October : The Nuremberg trials Civil vs. military authority -- Martial law in Texas -- Cases or controversies -- Judicial abstinence -- Thomas Paine -- The case of boss Tweed -- A bill of attainder -- The reactionary judges -- The mob and a fair trial -- A tory minister -- The right to revolt -- Habeas corpus in civil cases -- The October resolution -- Events behind the October resolution -- When the fences of the law broke down -- The jury -- Labor and the Clayton act -- America's default in foreign policy -- Joel Barlow and feudalism -- The Presbyterian manifesto of 1953 -- The concord resolutions -- The yellow dog contract -- The charter of the United Nations -- A universal declaration of human rights -- The Quebec letter -- The case of Michael Servetus -- Preferred constitutional rights -- Dilution of the first amendment -- National security and political freedom -- Philip Freneau, publisher -- IV. November : The stamp act -- Taxation for public purposes -- Elijah P. Lovejoy -- Governor Shute and censorship -- Restrictive covenants -- Restrictive covenants -- Right to counsel -- Trial of Anne Hutchinson -- The William Penn jury -- Excessive bail -- American public school system -- Parochial schools -- Trial of Margaret Douglass -- The case of Adolf Beck -- The case of J.B. Brown -- Double jeopardy -- The trial of Raleigh -- The trial of Dorothy Bailey -- Faceless informers -- Cross-examination -- The right to know the accusation -- Prior restraints on publication -- Distribution of religious literature -- Licensing the press -- Milton on freedom of the press -- Second-class mail -- Book banning -- Books banned by the state department -- American library association -- The way of the monopolist.

V. Tom Johnson and municipal ownership -- John Brown -- Roosevelt, Pinchot, and forestry -- Lincoln, Wilson, and the press -- Hamilton and capitalism -- The poll tax -- Jackson and anti-slavery literature -- Eisenhower and the bomb -- Control of the bomb -- The bomb and international law -- The "separate but equal" doctrine -- Irrigation and the budget -- Religions of the world -- The south reclaimed -- The bill of rights -- The English bill of rights -- Military vs. civil trials -- Our west coast Japanese -- When government is ignoble -- The trial of Thomas Paine -- Runaway seamen -- Prejudicial conduct of prosecutors -- The federal reserve system -- Remonstrance against religious assessments -- Jesus of Nazareth -- The book of Acts -- The trial of seven bishops -- Brandeis and the curse of bigness -- The anti-merger law -- The Sherman act -- The body of liberties -- VI. January : Emancipation proclamation -- F.B.I. raids -- Anti-peonage act -- The right peaceably to assemble -- Freedom from want -- The agricultural adjustment act -- The impeachment of Scroggs -- Licensing speech -- Hughes and the new York socialists -- The trial of Richard Carlile -- Immunity statutes -- Claim agents and releases -- Sovereign immunity -- A loyalty oath for teaching or preaching -- The spoils system -- Civil service -- The trial of Tom Scopes -- Unitarian tenets and reform -- A bill for establishing religious freedom -- The supremacy clause -- Race, color, and citizenship -- Treatment of the poor -- A court of industrial relations -- The power of congress to investigate -- Shay's rebellion -- Restraints on populism -- The whisky rebellion -- Illiteracy tests for immigrants -- The veto power -- "Other people's money" -- Involuntary servitude -- VII. February : Beard and the constitution -- The sovereignty of good will -- The Sherman act and the hatters -- Judicial supremacy and Marshall -- Judicial supremacy and Cosby -- George W. Norris -- Unemployment insurance -- The commerce clause -- Protection of trade-and the constitution -- A tax on the press -- The trial of William Bradford -- Lilburne's refusal to testify -- Advent of the fifth amendment -- Catholics, communists, and the fifth amendment -- Limitations of the fifth amendment -- The third degree -- The gold clause -- William Lloyd Garrison -- Guarantee of bank deposits -- Restraints on the Virginia press -- Odious oaths -- Ownership of power in navigable streams -- A man's house is his castle -- The fourth amendment -- Habeas corpus and the next friend -- Rotation in office -- Vague and obscure laws -- Roosevelt's court plan -- VIII. March : Judges and social legislation -- Judges and social legislation -- Another veto by governor Alfred E. Smith -- Jefferson on political tolerance -- Political tolerance -- The Dred Scott case -- The bank and the constitution -- A "released time" program -- What un-American means -- William Goddard, publisher -- Religious tests for office -- Peter Wentworth and parliamentary immunity -- John Elliot and parliamentary immunity -- Extent of congressional immunity -- Reform of congressional investigations -- The one-man grand jury -- The case of Annie Lee Moss -- Workmen's compensation --Sterilization of imbeciles -- Truman's loyalty program -- Government by injunction -- The quartering of soldiers -- Coxey's army -- The end of the rate bill -- The case of William G. McCardle -- Treatment of the insane -- Collective bargaining -- The fifteenth amendment -- Barring of communists from the ballot -- IX. April : Counsel for communists -- The trial of Stephen Colledge -- The white primary -- Bankruptcy -- Farmer-debtor bankruptcies -- Municipal bankruptcies -- Property qualifications for voters -- Seizure of the steel mills -- Academic freedom and foreign languages -- The pauper school laws -- Sectarianism and the public schools -- The Bible and public schools -- Separation of church and state -- Walter M. Pierce -- The courts and the church -- Polygamy and religious freedom -- Destitute and delinquent children -- A mortgage moratorium -- Tardy ratification of the bill of rights -- The Australian ballot -- The juvenile court -- The liability of employers -- In contempt of congress -- Pleas for religious tolerance -- Censorship of the English stage -- Censorship of the American stage -- Simon Fish and Feudalism -- Equality of treatment to travelers -- Old age pensions -- The right to a trial -- X. May : Property and liberty -- Exclusion of negroes from juries -- Exclusion of negroes from juries -- The fourteenth amendment and corporations -- Legal fictions -- Manwaring and chambers -- Human rights in coal -- A ten-hour day for women -- Convicting the innocent -- Discrimination against Chinese -- R.E.A. -- Library bill of rights -- Direct election of senators -- Ellis Island -- Brewer on aliens -- The impeachment of Andrew Johnson -- Public schools and segregation -- T.V.A. -- Subsidizing and railroads -- Public lands and public schools -- The homestead act -- Land grant colleges -- The direct primary -- The public library -- Citizenship and the bearing of arms -- The petition of right -- The habeas corpus act -- Suspension of habeas corpus -- Ratifying the constitution -- Treason trials -- The copyright law -- XI. June : Sterilization laws -- Initiative and referendum -- Flag salute -- Wire tapping -- Wire tapping -- Wire tapping -- Discrimination against Japanese -- Federal control of intrastate commerce -- Federal control of child labor -- Newspapers in contempt of court -- Blasphemy trials -- Declaration of rights -- Jefferson on free speech -- Values of free speech -- Magna carta -- Magna carta -- The reformation and the Bible -- Discrimination against negro teachers -- imprisonment for debt -- Imprisonment for debt -- The grandfather clause -- The case of Sommersett -- Guilt by association -- The right to emigrate -- Poor laws -- Altgeld and the anarchists -- Carl Sandburg and Altgeld -- Contract labor -- Indentured servants -- Pure food and drug act -- XII. July : Fair employment practice acts -- Faith -- Freedom.