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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... judicial right reason'' derived from ''long study and experience'' could serve as final arbiters of the common law. Coke thus contributed to Western thought the powerful idea of judicial review of the nation's chief executive and its ...
... judicial right reason'' derived from ''long study and experience'' could serve as final arbiters of the common law. Coke thus contributed to Western thought the powerful idea of judicial review of the nation's chief executive and its ...
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... judicial review in a branch of government, headed by a supreme court, wholly apart from the legislature. Then came Sir William Blackstone ( – ), whose Commentaries on the Laws of England, first published in , focused ...
... judicial review in a branch of government, headed by a supreme court, wholly apart from the legislature. Then came Sir William Blackstone ( – ), whose Commentaries on the Laws of England, first published in , focused ...
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... judicial activist. By Judge Tapping Reeve and Judge James Gould, teaching at Litchfield Law School in Connecticut, found a way to reinterpret Wilson's acceptance of judicial lawmaking so that it would seem less blatant. They ...
... judicial activist. By Judge Tapping Reeve and Judge James Gould, teaching at Litchfield Law School in Connecticut, found a way to reinterpret Wilson's acceptance of judicial lawmaking so that it would seem less blatant. They ...
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... judicial action favoring the wealthy, but in the years ahead his followers democratized the law profoundly in other ways by forcing changes in the education of lawyers, their admission to practice, and the selection of judges ...
... judicial action favoring the wealthy, but in the years ahead his followers democratized the law profoundly in other ways by forcing changes in the education of lawyers, their admission to practice, and the selection of judges ...
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... judicial philosophy of Wiley Rutledge. Lieberlooked for the ultimate source of the common law not in God, or in God-created Nature, but in human culture as it evolved over time. Although Lieber was convinced that for every judicial ...
... judicial philosophy of Wiley Rutledge. Lieberlooked for the ultimate source of the common law not in God, or in God-created Nature, but in human culture as it evolved over time. Although Lieber was convinced that for every judicial ...
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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 |
Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge John M. Ferren,Wiley Rutledge Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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