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" This case is decided upon an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain. If it were a question whether I agreed with that theory, I should desire to study it further and long before making up my mind. But I do not conceive that... "
The Outlook - Page 569
1911
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Origins of Protective Labor Legislation for Women, 1905-1925

Susan Lehrer - Law - 1987 - 332 pages
...majorities, inquiry may be returned, whether they are to be at the mercy of judicial majorities. 43 This case is decided upon an economic theory which...it further and long before making up my mind. But . . . my agreement or disagreement has nothing to do with the right of a majority to embody their opinions...
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The Constitutional Rights of Women: Cases in Law and Social Change

Leslie Friedman Goldstein - Social Science - 1988 - 660 pages
...theory which a large part of the country does not entertain. If it were a question whether I agreed with that theory, I should desire to study it further...the right of a majority to embody their opinions in law. It is settled by various decisions of this court that state constitutions and state laws may regulate...
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Foreshadows of the Law: Supreme Court Dissents and Constitutional Development

Donald E. Lively - Constitutional law - 1992 - 208 pages
...theory which a large part of the country does not entertain. If it were a question whether I agreed with that theory, I should desire to study it further...the right of a majority to embody their opinions in law. It is settled by various decisions of this court that state constitutions and state laws may regulate...
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Privacy as a Constitutional Right: Sex, Drugs, and the Right to Life

Darien Auburn McWhirter, Jon D. Bible - Privacy, Right of - 1992 - 236 pages
...theory which a large part of this country does not entertain. If it were a question whether I agreed with that theory, I should desire to study it further...the right of a majority to embody their opinions in law. It is settled by various decisions of this court that state constitutions and state laws may regulate...
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The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Robert Watson Gordon - Law - 1992 - 342 pages
...his back on economics altogether. The true judge will rise above every opinion on the subject since "my agreement or disagreement has nothing to do with...the right of a majority to embody their opinions in law." By implication, the judges of the majority opinion are partisans who "share" or "embody convictions...
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self

G. Edward White - History - 1995 - 648 pages
...legislation of the kind proposed for the baking industry by the New York legislature. He simply said that "my agreement or disagreement has nothing to do with the right of the majority to embody their opinions in law."56 On receiving his April issue of the Harvard Law Review,...
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A History of the Supreme Court

Bernard Schwartz - History - 1993 - 480 pages
...not consistent with his conception of the judicial function. "If it were a question whether I agreed with that theory, I should desire to study it further...making up my mind. But I do not conceive that to be my dut)', because I strongly believe that my agreement or disagreement has nothing to do with the right...
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Judicial Dictatorship

William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - Law - 1995 - 143 pages
...the Fourteenth Amendment" and the federal courts. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, dissenting, said, "I strongly believe that my agreement or disagreement...the right of a majority to embody their opinions in law." The Court overruled the will of the state majority time after time. Holmes dissented time after...
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The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers ...

Howard Gillman - Law - 1993 - 336 pages
...dissenting from the majority opinion in Lochner v. New York, should prevail, and courts be held to have "nothing to do with the right of a majority to embody their opinion in law," written constitutions had better be avowedly and formally abolished. . . . [W]hen...
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Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy

Michael J. Sandel - History - 1998 - 436 pages
...theory which a large part of the country does not entertain. If it were a question whether I agreed with that theory, I should desire to study it further...the right of a majority to embody their opinions in law." But he goes on to make the further claim that the Constitution does not affirm any particular...
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