Justice at Home

When we let ourselves be guided by [a] tolerant and far-seeing view of the art of government, we are not departing from the Constitution; we are returning to it.

-"Back to the Constitution," an address before the Public Utility Section of the American Bar Association, 

San Francisco, July 10, 1939

Welcome to Justice at Home, an email newsletter from the Robert H. Jackson Center that hits your inbox every three weeks with updates on our virtual programming, lesson plans and lectures, and interesting finds from our digital archives. 

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Tea Time with the Jackson Center: Marcie Roth and Dawn Skaggs, World Institute on Disability

Our 2021 programming theme is The Work Left to Do, and within that theme we explore a different focus each month. In the first Tea of the month, we look at a topic from a broader perspective to understand the universal and legal challenges. For the second Tea of the month, we speak with those doing the work to educate and/or advance change so we can understand the continuing challenges and how we contribute to change in our own communities. In September, we are focused on disability justice.

Our September 23 Tea guests will be Marcie Roth, Executive Director and CEO, and Dawn Skaggs, Emergency, Disaster, and Climate Resilience Specialist, for the World Institute on Disability. WID’s global mission is to continually advance the rights and opportunities of over one billion people with disabilities. Active in the Independent Living movement since 1982, Marcie has served in senior and executive leadership roles for national and global disability advocacy and public policy organizations since 1995, establishing, supporting and leading coalitions committed to operationalizing disability inclusion as an intersectional imperative for global social justice. Dawn is a national and international subject matter expert, consultant and speaker on the creation of disability and whole community inclusive emergency planning, preparedness, response and recovery for universal physical, programmatic and communication access.

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Coming Up at the Jackson Center

Thursday, September 30 and Friday, October 1: 75th Anniversary of the Verdict of the International Military Tribunal, Webinar. The Robert H. Jackson Center and the International Nuremberg Principles Academy commemorate the verdicts issued by the IMT with a special event - two free virtual programs, dissecting the historic and legal implications of the judgment and discussing contemporary prosecutions of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The Sept. 30 program is from 8am to 10am ET. The Oct.1 panel is from 9am to 11am ET. Register here.

Thursday, September 23 at 3pm ET: Tea Time with the Jackson Center, Facebook Live.

From Jackson's Desk

Robert H. Jackson was a gifted orator and writer. Many of his articles and speech transcripts are housed on our website. We feature them in our weekly #TuesdayMotivation and #SundayQuote on the Jackson Center's social media pages.

In November 1939, Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson debated Frederick H. Wood, a New York attorney on the radio show "America's Town Meeting of Air," broadcast by NBC on the topic of the United States' constitutional government. Jackson started his side with the following:

"The Constitution of the United States, as written by our forefathers and ratified by the people themselves, is not beyond the understanding of the average citizen. In
simple language it sets up a skeleton government, sketches its powers and limitations in a few great clauses, and in ten short amendments declares those fundamental rights which makeup our freedom. It does not use technical terms, and it is all contained in about 4,500 words. Such brevity proves that it is not a mere lawyer's document. I urge you study it."

Read the rest of Jackson's thoughts in 'Is Our Constitutional Government in Danger' on our website here. 

The International Military Tribunal Judges, Nuremberg, Germany

This Month in Jackson History

September 1909: Robert Jackson begins attending Jamestown High School as a commuter senior-class student for one year following his graduation from Frewsburg High School. Here he was deeply influenced by Mary Willard, with whom he took classes in English and English History, and Milton Fletcher, the principal. He maintained life-long friendships with both.

September 30, 1946: The judges of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg read their judgment, which validated, under international law, each crime charged in the indictment. The court returned its verdicts on the indicted organizations. The verdicts on the 22 individual defendants were delivered the following day.

Are You a Philanthropist?

Philanthropy is “the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.” For a working student, waitress, bank teller or CEO, generous will have different meanings; but, for the Robert H. Jackson Center, it means you chose to give what you could.

So, we encourage and invite all donations - from $10 to $10,000,000 - to help advance our mission. Your gifts assure we continue to reach and broaden the audiences we seek to educate and inspire to live their best civic life through Jackson’s lens.

Will you become a philanthropist today with a generous gift to bring us closer to a global society where the universal principles of equality, fairness and justice prevail?