Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court
By: by Felix Frankfurter.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935.; United States. Supreme Court.; Constitutional law -- United States.; 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, 18 and 25, 1938 as part of the program 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. Note.
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.