The New York herald., 1922-06-18
A Survey by JUDGE WILLARD
BARTLETT.


STATES HISTORY. BY Charles
Warren. formerly Assistant Attor-
ney-General of the United States. In
three volumes. Little. Brown & Co.
TT is good deal to say of a book
that it ought to be in the
library of every Senator and
representative in the Congress of
the United States: yet this commen-
dation is not too strong to bestow
upon the notable work by Mr.
Charles Warren of the Boston Bar
just published by Messrs. Little
Brown & Co.. on the influence of the
Supreme Court of the United States
IN american history. Nor is it only
to statesmen and lawyers that these
volumes will prove important and
useful; they will be found interest
ing and instructive to every serious
student of the political development
OF the institutions of the greatest of
all experiments in republican gov
ernment. Although written by a
lawyer, ne work is not a law book
and does not contain a page which
is not readily comprehensive by the
general reader.
The novelty Of the political sys-
tenn contemplated by the Constitu-
ton of the United States was the
establishment of dual Government.
national and State, each branch of
which should act directly upon the
individual, instead of a national Gov
ernment exercising it's powers over
the individual through the agency of
the several States. The theory was
fully explained to the people in the
Federoiist by Hamilton and Madison
and Jay. its most earnest supporters
and eloquent advocates; and after a
sufficient number of States had ac-
cepted the Constitution to make it a
valid and enforceable instrument
the duty devolvej upon the Supreme
Court. in the exercise Of its function
of adjudicating controversies be-
tween suitors and as incidental
thereto. to build up a workable
political and social structure which
should preserve the liberty of the
people ana make a nation without
destroying the States. How this has
been accomplished is explained in
the present work.
The author has enjoyed training
and experience which fit him for the
task he has undertaken. Educated
at Harvard College and the Harvard
Law School, he was admitted to the
bar in 1892 and a year later became
private secretary to Governor WILL
lam L. Russell of Massachusetts.
with whom he was associated in the
practice of the law until the death
of the Governor in 1896. From 1905
to 1911 he was chairman of the
Massachusetts, Civil Service Com
mission. and IN May, 1914, he was
appointed an Assistant Attorney
General of the United States ami
served as such in the Department
OF Justice at Washington until
some time in 1918. a period of about
four years. during which it may be
said that he constantly breathed the
atmosphere of the Supreme Court of
the United States. His interest in
the literature of the law has already
been manifested by the publication
in 1909 of History of the Harvard
Law School and Early Legal Con-
ditions in America, and in 1911 of a
History of the American Bar, Colo
NAL and Federal, down to the year
1860
H.
of American historians, declares the
creation of the Federal judiciary to
have been "the most noble as it is
the most distinctive feature in the
Government of the United States"
Through its agency has been real
ized ''the sublime conceptions of a
nation in which every citizen lives
under two complete and wellround-
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