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In the years remaining, Hughes proved instrumental in the Court's transformation from its role as the protector of property rights to defender of personal liberties. An outspoken critic in the post-World War I hysteria, which had encouraged official action against radical political groups, the chief justice was actively involved in defining those liberties in the context of one's right to free speech and assembly and to be free, under the Fourteenth Amendment, from state interference in the free exercise of the rights specifically protected by the federal constitution. Hughes had long maintained an interest in such issues, having written the Court's majority opinions in Aldridge v. U. S. (jury panelists can be questioned regarding their racial attitudes), Stromberg v. California (a free-speech issue involving the display of a red flag as a symbol of opposition to the government, a violation of state law...
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