Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court
By: by Felix Frankfurter
Publisher: Gaunt Inc.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Holmes Beach, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781561699247
Subjects: Constitutional law; Law
Other titles: Property and society.; Civil liberties and the individual.; Federal system.
Notes: "Second printing, November 1938"--T.p. verso.

Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1938.

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 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. Notes.
Table of contents: title: Introductory; title: Property and society; title: Civil liberties and the individual; title: The Federal system; title: Appendices: 1. Cases holding state action invalid under the fourteenth amendment. 2. Geographic distribution of state action held invalid in Supreme Court decisions under the fourteenth amendment.