Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court / Felix Frankfurter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law--United States.

Constitutional law.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961.

Summary:

In 1938, a year before he was called to the Supreme Court of the United States, Professor Frankfurter delivered three lectures at Harvard on Mr. Justice Holmes which conveyed with sympathetic insight Holmes's constitutional philosophy. He also wrote a remarkably sensitive biographical notice of Holmes for the Dictionary of American Biography. This book brings these works into one volume.

Contents:

Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1841-1935

Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court : introductory

Property and society

Civil liberties and the individual

The Federal system.

Notes:

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