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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524849903321

Autore

Thomas Helen Shirley

Titolo

Felix Frankfurter : Scholar on the Bench

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins Press, [1960]

©[1960]

ISBN

0-8018-0628-3

1-4214-3533-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Disciplina

923.473

Soggetti

Laws of Specific jurisdictions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical footnotes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- One: From Ivory Tower to Marble Halls -- I. The Making of a Scholar -- II. New Deal and National Prominence -- Two: Symbolism and Social Unity -- III. "We Live by Symbols -- IV. Group Conflict in Modem Society -- V. The Supreme Court and the Interests of Society -- Three: The Uses of History -- VI. History and the Bill of Rights -- VII. History and the Fourteenth Amendment -- VIII. Precedents, Doctrines, and Statutes -- Four: The Constitution as an Instrument of Power -- IX. Subversion and Self-Preservation -- X. "Preferred Freedoms"-A Negative View -- XI. "It Is a Constitution We Are Expounding -- Five : Decentralization and Dispersal of Control -- XII . The Court and Congress -- XIII. The Institutional Role of the Court -- XIV. The Court between Nation and States -- Six: The Role of the Judge -- XV. "The Man Who Talks So Much -- XVI. Scholar on the Bench -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Originally published in 1960. Felix Frankfurter, a controversial figure in American judicial history, completed more than twenty-one years of service on the Supreme Court. This book is the first extended treatment of his political performance as a justice. It portrays the influence that he, both as teacher and jurist, exerted in the growth of public law over fifty years. He has exerted his influence not only through his writing



but also through his personal acquaintance with many important persons in and out of government service. Beyond examining the career of one man, Thomas opens up a wider window on the history of legal thought. The main value of the book, though, lies in its presentation of the philosophy of one leading twentieth-century educator and jurist.