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Peter Irons introduces 16 Americans who had the courage andperseverance to pursue a belief in their constitutional rights allthe way to the Surpreme Court. Their cases, decided by the SurpremeCourt between 1940 and 1986, raise four major issues of our time --religion, race, protest, and privacy.
