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Black, Hugo (LaFayette)
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| Judge, born in Harlan, Alabama, USA, best known for his belief in the Bill of Rights as a guarantee of civil liberties. He practised law in Alabama and became a police court judge. In 1926 he entered the US Senate, and was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1937. He held that the Fourteenth Amendment made the Bill of Rights, which was originally adopted to limit the powers of national government, equally applicable to the states. He also insisted that the First Amendment's guarantees of freedoms were absolute. |
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