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received that Bill of Rights in what you might call a com-
promise to the economically determined Constitution.
In most cases, the economic favoritism has
worked to the disadvantage of the poor, the low income
people. Somehow the 14th Amendment, the equal protection
doctrine, has failed to cover the low income group or to
shield the poor from the many inequities from which they
usually suffer.
I want to read from current events, current
documents, to support this amendment. First I shall read
from a speech by Vice President Humphrey which is reported
in the Congressional Record. He made this speech to the
9th Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association in
Honolulu, Hawaii. When he was taking to the members of
the Bar Association he talked about poverty, and he went
on to say -- to quote Justice Fortas. He said:
"Err, as Justice Fortas recently put it, the
law, to the poor, as a system devised by the establishment
- of the establishment - for the establishment.'
"This is a law which is known in the ghetto,
not as the bl goddess of even-handed justice,