Book Review: Fundamental Liberties of a Free People: Religion, Speech, Press, and Assembly & Freedom, Virtue and the First Amendment

Professor Konvitz, without questioning the underlying assumptions of theliberal tradition, has written a careful and somewhat critical summary ofexisting Supreme Court law. Professor Berns mounts an all-out assaultupon the liberal position. Both \u27books are welcome and, each in its ownway, useful. Neither, I think, makes a really significant or lasting contributionto the very troublesome problems with which they deal