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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... politics received major reinforcement, especially in the summer of when he was sixteen. His father, ''always very much interested in political affairs,'' had often brought him along to hear noted political, religious, and other ...
... politics received major reinforcement, especially in the summer of when he was sixteen. His father, ''always very much interested in political affairs,'' had often brought him along to hear noted political, religious, and other ...
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... Political Science Club, and as a sophomore he played center on the football team, once making a legendary midfield flying tackle. His most significant extracurricular activity at Maryville, however, was public speaking—debate and ...
... Political Science Club, and as a sophomore he played center on the football team, once making a legendary midfield flying tackle. His most significant extracurricular activity at Maryville, however, was public speaking—debate and ...
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... political debate revealed Wiley's fundamental reason for rejecting Roosevelt progressivism: its virtual deification of majorities. He blasted ''the extremely radical wing of the Republican party which holds that the 'voice of the people ...
... political debate revealed Wiley's fundamental reason for rejecting Roosevelt progressivism: its virtual deification of majorities. He blasted ''the extremely radical wing of the Republican party which holds that the 'voice of the people ...
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... political prominence in Wisconsin after a period of agrarian and labor unrest throughout the nation. Elected Wisconsin's governor in , La Follette thwarted the ''Stalwarts'' of his own party by implementing political reform ...
... political prominence in Wisconsin after a period of agrarian and labor unrest throughout the nation. Elected Wisconsin's governor in , La Follette thwarted the ''Stalwarts'' of his own party by implementing political reform ...
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... politics and educational policies in the nation. La Follette and Van Hise represented the kind of ''government-can-do'' outlook, reinforced by an ethic of public service, that surely must have impressed the new Wisconsin senior from ...
... politics and educational policies in the nation. La Follette and Van Hise represented the kind of ''government-can-do'' outlook, reinforced by an ethic of public service, that surely must have impressed the new Wisconsin senior from ...
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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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