159 body. It is inherent in the Court’s work. Accordingly, he must have been prepared for attacks upon it. I venture to express the hope that the Court’s decisions always will be controversial, because it is human nature for the dominant group in a nation to keep pressing for further domination, and unless the court has the fiber to accord justice to the weakest member of society, regardless of the pressure brought upon it, we never can achieve our goal of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” for everyone. Perhaps, therefore, before discussing my own approach to the problems of the Supreme Court which have provoked the most feeling, it might be enlightening to explain in non legal terms what the jurisdiction and the procedures to the court are. I say this because in the news media the court is often portrayed as a mysterious body operating behind a veil of secrecy, and the general