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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 577
1911
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Safeguarding Americans from a Legal Culture of Fear: Approaches to Limiting ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Law - 2004 - 238 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 and long before making up my mind. Hut I do not conceive that to be my duty, because I strongly believe that my agreement or disagreement...
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Safeguarding Americans from a Legal Culture of Fear: Approaches to Limiting ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Law - 2004 - 228 pages
...part of the country does not entertain. If it were a question whether I agreed with that theory, 1 should desire to study it further and long before making up my mind. iStit I do not conceive that to be my duty, because I strongly believe that my agreement or disagreement...
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The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration

Glyn Morgan - EU - 2005 - 228 pages
...Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes put forward the following famous statement of judicial restraint: I strongly believe that my agreement or disagreement...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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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: The Supreme Court and American Legal Thought

Sophie Littlefield, William Wiecek - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 112 pages
...is good public policy or not. "I strongly believe that my agreement or disagreement [with the law] has nothing to do with the right of a majority to embody their opinions in law," he wrote. Whereas Peckham considered the case on the basis of whether the law was, in his words,...
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Legal Feminism: Activism, Lawyering, and Legal Theory

Ann Scales - Law - 2006 - 230 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. . . . [A] Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory, whether of paternalism...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint

Frederic R. Kellogg - Philosophy - 2006
...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.31 Following this came the same point which he had made in Otis, that a policy of permitting state...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

G. Edward White - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 173 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 . . . The other day we sustained the Massachusetts vaccination law. United States and state statutes...
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Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law

Brian Z. Tamanaha - Law - 2006 - 238 pages
...the judges were an improper basis for a constitutional decision. "I strongly believe," Holmes wrote, "that my agreement or disagreement has nothing to...the right of a majority to embody their opinions in law."45 When called upon to make decisions that turn on policy, Holmes felt that the duty of judges...
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Guns and Butter: Setting Priorities in Federal Spending in the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security - Business & Economics - 2006 - 96 pages
...of the country does not entertain," and adding that his "agreement or disagreement [with the theory] has nothing to do with the right of a majority to embody their opinions in the law," Holmes proceeded to read out of the Constitution all economic substance: "a constitution...
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The Gilded Age & Progressive Era: A Student Companion

Elisabeth Israels Perry, Karen Manners Smith - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 433 pages
...say whether he agreed with a law that limited the working hours of bakers, Holmes asserted that his "agreement or disagreement has nothing to do with the right of a majority [of the legislature of the state of New York] to embody their opinions in law," and that "State constitutions...
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