He had 'impish candor', to borrow one of his own phrases. Candor, indeed, was one of his deepest veins.

To an unusual degree in the history of the Court, Justice Jackson wrote as he felt. In his case the style was the man:.He wrote as he talked and he talked as h…

There was nothing stuffy about him and therefore, nothing stuffy about his writing.

He will live in the living law of the Constitution.