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- 3 - books, especially the Smith Act, the Internal Security Act, and the Subversive Activities Control Act. "2. Discredit and hamper the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, the House Un-American Activities Committee and f. State officials investigating Gcmunism. "3. weaken the effectiveness of the F.B.I. and reveal its sources of information. "4. Destroy the Federal security system." All of those purposes have been well served by the recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court, to which I refer. I think it would be helpful, tn» Chairman, if this report of the American Bar Association's comittee could be included in our hearing record. These excesses of the Supreme Court can be countered in either one of two ways. One way would be by constitutional amendment. But, Mr. Chairman, not only is that route slow and uncertain, but to take it would imply that loe change in the Constitution is necessary in order to protect the country against the Supreme Court. I cannot say, Inn Chairnmn, that I would disapprove a proposed Constitutional amendment, if such an amendment