ABSTRACT
The preservation of freedom requires a positive and continuing commitment. Specifically the maintenance of the United States as a free society confronts the American people with an immediate responsibility in two areas in particular: civil rights and civil liberties. Building on the constitutional foundations, the American people have erected through the years a structure of freedom. The result of each crime against freedom has been to make it harder for the people to destroy freedom in the next age of fright and hysteria. Each new martyr to freedom increased the national determination to protect nonconformity in the future. Due process of law and the clear and present danger test thus constitute the framework of freedom secured by the ancestors and ratified by the Supreme Court. The performance of the House Committee on Un-American Activities has shown clearly the dangers to civil freedom of a promiscuous and unprincipled attack on radicalism.
