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Court Justices Have Always Played Dual Role, Professor Says

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Speaking over station WEEI Saturday in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court, Assistant Professor Benjamin F. Wright, Jr. of the Government Department opened the Guardian's fall series of broadcasts.

Supreme Court justices from the beginning have been "statesmen," Wright declared, and the recent recognition of their dual role--determiners of social policy as well as interpreters of the law, merely expresses a condition that has aways existed.

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