Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme court
By: by Felix Frankfurter
Publisher: Harvard university press
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Constitutional law; Law
Other titles: Property and society.; Civil liberties and the individual.; Federal system.
Notes: The three lectures published in this volume, in their original form, were delivered to the general public on April 11, 13 and 23, 1938 as part of the progress of the Committee on extracurricular reading in American history of Harvard university. These essays cover the major controversies that came before the supreme court during the thirty years of Mr. Holmes' judgeship. cf. Notes.
Table of contents: title: Introductory.; title: Property and society.; title: Civil liberties and the individual.; title: The Federal system.; title: Appendices: I. Cases holding state action invalid under the fourteenth amendment; title: II. Geographic distribution of state action held invalid in Supreme court decisions under the fourteenth amendment.; title: "Fourth printing, January 1939."