Occupation: Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States Birth: May 24, 1870 Death: July 9, 1938
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age..
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice..
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress..
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding….
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity an….
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all i….