num_pages: 446
description: A highly interpretive and eminently readable study of the Supreme Court during the period in which Melvin Fuller was Chief Justice, offering a complete account of the cases the Court saw during one of the most tumultuous times in U.S. history. The legacy of the Supreme Court at the turn of the century has largely been negative: decisions such as Lochner v. New York (1905), Pollock v. Farmers' Loan &amp; Trust Co. (1895), In re Debs (1895), and Plessy v. Ferguson have been seen by subsequent generations of lawyers and judges as embodying a judicial method and philosophy that should be avoided at all costs. This book places these decisions in their historical context. It rejects the crude instrumental interpretation of these decisions and explains them as the expression of a conception of liberty that has its roots in the founding of the nation.
language: English
title: Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888-1910
titlecomplete: Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888-1910 (Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History ... of the Supreme Court of the United States)
characters: George Shiras Jr., John Marshall Harlan, Melville Fuller, David Josiah Brewer, Joseph McKenna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Stephen Johnson Field, Rufus W. Peckham, Edward Douglass White
genres: Law
ratings_count: 1
series: Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
publisher: Cambridge University Press