Charles L. Black, Jr., Yale Law School, Faculty Scholarship Series, Paper 2603, (1974). Originally published in The Yale Law Journal 84:2 (December 1974).

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To an intellectual, courage commands intellectual honesty. There were many times in Bickel’s life when the opinions to which his thought led him did not make him popular among the people with whom he would naturally have wished to be popular. Some of these opinions may even have been wrong; he never came close to claiming infallibility. But he had reached them by the best means known to him; they were his best, at least for the time, and he stuck with them until he saw reason to change. Of course.

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