Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: The Supreme Court and American Legal Thought

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, Aug 15, 2004 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 112 pages
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was a member of Boston s elite, a thrice-wounded Union soldier, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a professor of law, a celebrated legal scholar, and a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. He is best remembered, however, as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, a position he held for thirty years, from 1902 to 1932.
 

Contents

Introduction
5
Serving in the Civil War
21
A Young Lawyer and The Common Law
32
Becoming a Judge
39
An Appointment to the United States Supreme Court
51
Fundamental Principles
62
Congress and Child Labor
70
Free Speech and the First Amendment
79
Final Years
92
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