The Making of the Modern Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis

David F. Forte

The Making of the Modern Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis

David F. Forte

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis made the modern Supreme Court. These two brilliant and seminal justices, known in their day for their restraint, nonetheless gave the weapons and the impulse to justices who would not share their judicial temperaments. Perhaps each of them would have been chagrinned to the extent to which judges today ignore the traditional constraints of their jurisdiction, impose social values directly on the people, and increase the power of the central government over the states.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	History of American Political Thought
State	Published - Jan 1 2003

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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Louis Brandeis
supreme court
history
social darwinism
social reform of the constitution

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Constitutional Law
Judges

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Forte, D. F. (2003). The Making of the Modern Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis. In History of American Political Thought http://books.google.com/books?id=w81L1qAhNjoCpg=PA569lpg=PA569dq=%22making+of+the+modern+supreme+court:+oliver+wendell+holmes%22source=blots=wnC0rp19Rxsig=mcs_JDChMtF2dX82JPZk-OKtSjwhl=enei=ylmHTZ7yHo6ztwfx94SxBAsa=Xoi=book_resultct=resultresnum=2ved=0CB4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepageq=%22making%20of%20the%20modern%20supreme%20court%3A%20oliver%20wendell%20holmes%22f=false

Forte, DF 2003, The Making of the Modern Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis. in History of American Political Thought. <http://books.google.com/books?id=w81L1qAhNjoCpg=PA569lpg=PA569dq=%22making+of+the+modern+supreme+court:+oliver+wendell+holmes%22source=blots=wnC0rp19Rxsig=mcs_JDChMtF2dX82JPZk-OKtSjwhl=enei=ylmHTZ7yHo6ztwfx94SxBAsa=Xoi=book_resultct=resultresnum=2ved=0CB4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepageq=%22making%20of%20the%20modern%20supreme%20court%3A%20oliver%20wendell%20holmes%22f=false>

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