Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley RutledgeUniv of North Carolina Press, 2006 M03 8 - 592 páginas The Kentucky-born son of a Baptist preacher, with an early tendency toward racial prejudice, Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge (1894-1949) became one of the Court's leading liberal activists and an early supporter of racial equality, free speech, and church-state separation. Drawing on more than 160 interviews, John M. Ferren provides a valuable analysis of Rutledge's life and judicial decisionmaking and offers the most comprehensive explanation to date for the Supreme Court nominations of Rutledge, Felix Frankfurter, and William O. Douglas. Rutledge was known for his compassion and fairness. He opposed discrimination based on gender and poverty and pressed for expanded rights to counsel, due process, and federal review of state criminal convictions. During his brief tenure on the Court (he died following a stroke at age fifty-five), he contributed significantly to enhancing civil liberties and the rights of naturalized citizens and criminal defendants, became the Court's most coherent expositor of the commerce clause, and dissented powerfully from military commission convictions of Japanese generals after World War II. Through an examination of Rutledge's life, Ferren highlights the development of American common law and legal education, the growth of the legal profession and related institutions, and the evolution of the American court system, including the politics of judicial selection. |
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... evidence presented by each side and announced the commission's findings (in part): The Prosecution presented evidence to show that the crimes were so extensive and widespread, both as to time and area, that they must have been wilfully ...
... evidence presented by each side and announced the commission's findings (in part): The Prosecution presented evidence to show that the crimes were so extensive and widespread, both as to time and area, that they must have been wilfully ...
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... evidence that college authorities ever told Wiley and Annabel they could not date, and so their relationship continued at Maryville. Sometime in his junior year, however, Wiley decided that he should obtain a degree at a better-known ...
... evidence that college authorities ever told Wiley and Annabel they could not date, and so their relationship continued at Maryville. Sometime in his junior year, however, Wiley decided that he should obtain a degree at a better-known ...
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... evidence, and wills. Then, creating an intense, interactive experience, Langdell would call on a student to recite a case, and answer question after question about it, until the student under fire—or another—came up with the rule of law ...
... evidence, and wills. Then, creating an intense, interactive experience, Langdell would call on a student to recite a case, and answer question after question about it, until the student under fire—or another—came up with the rule of law ...
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... evidence, however, that Wiley took a principled enough interest in state politics to speak out against the Klan-dominated governor's office. Indeed, after this brief foray into organized party politics, Rutledge never made one again. D ...
... evidence, however, that Wiley took a principled enough interest in state politics to speak out against the Klan-dominated governor's office. Indeed, after this brief foray into organized party politics, Rutledge never made one again. D ...
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... evidence indicating why Wiley made the career change, although the reasons are not difficult to discern. In the first place, law practice at the time, while stable at Wiley's firm in Boulder, was cyclical enough to cause worry; it was ...
... evidence indicating why Wiley made the career change, although the reasons are not difficult to discern. In the first place, law practice at the time, while stable at Wiley's firm in Boulder, was cyclical enough to cause worry; it was ...
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Part III Judge 19391949 | 171 |
Notes | 423 |
Sources | 511 |
Acknowledgments | 543 |
Index of Subjects | 549 |
Index of Cases | 570 |
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Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge John M. Ferren Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
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