Press Release, Truman for Senator State Headquarters

Edftors: For reilease to morning papers of Octoter 6 and after. Mathilis SERVIOL TRUMAN-FOR-SENATOR HEADQUARTERS Madison Hotel William P. Harvey Jefferson City, Missouri Publicity Director HOUSTON,MO. ,Oct. S.--Stating that the constitution of the United States was not written to bind the people but to set them free,Judge Harry S. Truman of Independence, in a speech here tonight ,answered charges being made by members of the American Liberty League and others that the New Deal, ,1 n it important pnases, is unconstitutional. He said that nearly every member of the bar, ,regardless of age,had cut thei/ *legal eye teeth* on the Cooley Commentaries on the constitution. Judge Cool- in ey,Truman said, one of the more profound studies of that document, held that the constitution was flexible to need;that it represented merely the will of the people under changing conditions. Judge Cooley said this, Truman asserted: that we may think the const- ftution is all before us,but for practical purposes the constitution is that which the government in its several tdepartments and the people in the per- formancex of their duties as citizens recognize and respect as such;and notn- ing else is. Cervantes says: Every one is the son of his own works. Tnis is more emphatically true of an instrument of government than it possibly can be of a natural person. What it takes to itself,though at first unwar- rantable,helps to make it over into a new instrument of government and it represents at last the acts done under it. "Judge Cooley's words are used by me,not in refuting charges tnat the New Deal is unconstitutional. There has as yet, in* spite of the loud moythings of the leaders and sychophants in the effort to hold the great masses of us in social and economic not been a sinIgLe leagal action taken against the basic constitutional ground upon which the new Deal rests. Tnat action must naturally revolve about one main idea;that the Congress of tne United States did not have the constitutional right to delegate to that Preservation Copy the president the power to create many-sided effort to end the depress- unable to locate original 6-0-03-22 (