Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Editor’s Preface vii
3. Contents ix
4. The Zeitgeist and the Judiciary 1
5. Hours of Labor and Realism in Constitutional Law 8
6. The Constitutional Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes 22
7. The Nomination of Mr. Justice Brandeis 43
8. Taft and the Supreme Court 49
9. The “Law” and Labor 68
10. The Berger Decision 78
11. Press Censorship by Judicial Construction 83
12. Child Labor and the Court 90
13. The Coronado Case 97
14. Labor Injunctions Must Go 104
15. Mr. Justice Holmes 109
16. Twenty Years of Mr. Justice Holmes’s Constitutional Opinions 112
17. Exit the Kansas Court 140
18. Lèse Majesté Mayer 143
19. The American Judge 149
20. The Red Terror of Judicial Reform 158
21. The Lawless Judge 168
22. Can the Supreme Court Guarantee Toleration? 174
23. The Case of Anita Whitney 179
24. The Supreme Court as Legislator 181
25. Supreme Court Decisions: “What Stuff ‘Tis Made Of” 186
26. The Judiciary Act of 1925 195
27. The Paradoxes of Legal Science 202
28. Hughes on the Supreme Court 206
29. The Appointment of a Justice 211
30. The Supreme Court and the Public 218
31. The Supreme Court and the Interstate Commerce Commission 228
32. The Early Writings of O. W. Holmes, Jr. 234
33. When Judge Cardozo Writes 242
34. Mr. Justice Brandeis and the Constitution 247
35. Legislative History 271
36. The Packers v. The Government 274
37. The Scottsboro Case 280
38. Social Issues Before the Supreme Court 286
39. Judge Manton and the Supreme Court 306
40. The Certiorari Process 312
41. The Pressure of Business 328
42. Mr. Justice Holmes 8 March 1841 - 6 March 1935 333
43. The A.A.A. Case 335
44. The Orbit of Judicial Power 338
45. Congressional Control Over the Business of the Supreme Court 358
46. Justice Holmes Defines the Constitution 377
47. Mr. Justice Cardozo and Public Law 401
48. Chief Justice Stone 437
49. The “Administrative Side” of Chief Justice Hughes 443
50. The Supreme Court 448
51. The Impact of Charles Evans Hughes 465
52. Chief Justices I Have Known 471
53. The Judicial Process and the Supreme Court 496
54. Mr. Justice Jackson 509
55. Mr. Justice Roberts 516
56. Mr. Justice Cardozo 525
57. John Marshall and the Judicial Function 533
58. Index 559