The Making of the Modern Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2003

Publication Title

History of American Political Thought

Keywords

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, supreme court, history, social darwinism, social reform of the constitution

Abstract

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis made the modern Supreme Court. These two brilliant and seminal justices, known in their day for their restraint, nonetheless gave the weapons and the impulse to justices who would not share their judicial temperaments. Perhaps each of them would have been chagrinned to the extent to which judges today ignore the traditional constraints of their jurisdiction, impose social values directly on the people, and increase the power of the central government over the states.

ISBN

0739106236

Comments

In Google Books and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library's Special Collection Archive.

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