[5] However, the group stayed active with the goal to fight "against denial of liberty according to race," and to "use all legal means within [their] power to procure and maintain [their] rights as citizens of [their] common country."

The book called for a "sober investigation and dissection of the decisions of our courts which have produced or suffered the present obscuration of the great political truths of the Fourteenth Amendment.

[16] Justice and Jurisprudence began with a preface and the bulk of its content was 46 chapters that condemned decisions of the United States Supreme Court such as the Civil Rights Cases, which the Brotherhood argued misinterpreted the Reconstruction Amendments.

The book further maintained that the Court "ignored precedent, manipulated language to justify outcomes, and founded decisions on prejudice and policies instead of higher law and the forward march of morality.

The constitutional, religious, sociological and economic discussion follows between the foreign publicist, who "has never felt the chill blasts of racial adversity," the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Leaders of the Press.

The author seems not at all embarrassed in his great undertaking to demonstrate that Supreme Court decisions of late, construing the Fourteenth Amendment, have been characterized by a narrow spirit, which defeats the noble purpose of its framers, and has given rise indirectly to the race controversies which now agitate the country.

"[21] An anonymous reviewer in The Philadelphia Inquirer, describing it as "an inquiry concerning the constitutional limitations of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments", suggested that Justice and Jurisprudence represented a "return to the pamphlet which preceded newspapers and now shows some signs of being revived".

"[25] Smith concluded that the book's "origination stands as the Magna Carta of black people, and its powerful themes now grace the matrix of American law.