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ether intellectually dishonest or stupid. ut, even though the 4th Amendment were valid, the nonsegregalion decision is still in- valid for the reason that the Fifth Secuion of the l4th Amendment states! The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legisla- tion, the provisions of this article. The Congress has passed no law prohibiung the States from. sepre- yuting the races. Nor is there anv- thing in the Constitution thar au- thorizes the President to send forth the Armed Forces tw enforce an edict of the Supreme Court which is net in pursuance of the Constitu- tion. Nor ts there anything in the Constitution that requires a judge of an inferior court to ignore bis oath of office by following a ukase of the Supreme Court which he knows is unconstitutional. Almost everyone probably will agree that the Supreme Court has keaned over backward in its efforts to help the Communists. Suppose that it would decide to help the Communists to the extent that they should order the Navy te scuttle its ships, the Air Force to destroy its planes and the Army to do away with its atomic weapons. Even though such an order would mean Narional suicide, the President and some-members of the inferior courts would, doubtless, ake the position that because it was so ordered: by 2 Tus Axaiuican Mercuny the Supreme Court, the decision was the “law of the land” and all must abide by it. The nonsegrepa- tion decision is just as far-fetched _ and just as unconstirutiunal,. J. Y. Sanders, Jr, in the article already alluded to, demonstrates that the Supreme Coun, by follow- ing exactly the same reasoning it used in the nonsegregation deci- sion, can also rule that: The theory of private ownership | of property in our country has a! detrimental effect upon those who do not own property. The impact is all the greater in that it has the © sanction of the law. The policy of separating the classes on account of . their wealth or lack of wealth is _ usually interpected as indicating an inferiority of the poorer group. This sense of inferiority affects the char- acter of the adult and seriously af- fects the motivation of the children of the poor. The fact that one class af people live in fine houses while another class of people are cormm- pelled by the operation of this so- called law (private ownership) to live in tenements or even ‘slums’ has a tendency to retard the political, so- cial and economic as well as the mental devetopment of the poorer class of children and creates a sense of inferiority and class frustration upon the poorer classes who feel that they are deprived of an inher- ent right by the operation of this so-called artificial law. - - . We conclude that in the ficld ef cconomics the doctrine of pri vate ownership of property has no place. Separate and private owner-