The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888–1910Univ of South Carolina Press, 2012 M11 1 - 257 pages A study of the man who led the Supreme Court as the nineteenth century ended and the twentieth began, exploring issues of property, government authority, and more. |
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... direct legislation.” 38 Fuller adopted the Jeffersonian maxim that the best government is the least government. “Paternalism,” he declared, “with its constant intermeddling with individual freedom, has no place in a system which rests ...
... direct appeal to the Supreme Court in federal criminal cases. This produced a sharp jump in the number of criminal appeals, 75 and the justices became increasingly involved in reviewing the criminal work of the lower federal courts. Its ...
... direct strategy , for which he drew on the 1869 example of Justice Robert C. Grier . A delegation of justices , including Field , had convinced the failing Grier to leave the bench . Late in 1896 Harlan was deputized to remind Field of ...
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Conservative Jurisprudence in the Age of Enterprise | |
Safeguarding Entrepreneurial Liberty | |
Defending the National Market | |
Civil Liberties Equal Rights and Criminal Justice | |
Issues of Government | |
Private Litigation | |
Betting on the Future | |