„Skuteční vládcové ve Washingtonu jsou neviditelní a vykonávají moc v zákulisí.“
Zdroj: [Klein, Shelley, 2006, Nejkrutější tajné společnosti v dějinách, Alpress, 31, 9788073622923]
Felix Frankfurter byl americký právník.
„Skuteční vládcové ve Washingtonu jsou neviditelní a vykonávají moc v zákulisí.“
Zdroj: [Klein, Shelley, 2006, Nejkrutější tajné společnosti v dějinách, Alpress, 31, 9788073622923]
“Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.”
Speech accepting an award from the National Institute for Immigrant Welfare, Biltmore Hotel, New York (May 11, 1933).
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Kontext: Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.
Writing for the court, Milk Wagon Drivers Union of Chicago, Local 753. v. Meadowmoor Dairies, Inc., 312 U.S. 287 (1941).
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Kontext: It must never be forgotten, however, that the Bill of Rights was the child of the Enlightenment. Back of the guarantee of free speech lay faith in the power of an appeal to reason by all the peaceful means for gaining access to the mind. It was in order to avert force and explosions due to restrictions upon rational modes of communication that the guarantee of free speech was given a generous scope. But utterance in a context of violence can lose its significance as an appeal to reason and become part of an instrument of force. Such utterance was not meant to be sheltered by the Constitution.
“National unity is the basis of national security.”
Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940).
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Kontext: National unity is the basis of national security. To deny the legislature the right to select appropriate means for its attainment presents a totally different order of problem from that of the propriety of subordinating the possible ugliness of littered streets to the free expression opinion through handbills.
Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587, 594 (1961).
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Reply to counsel who said a challenge from the bench was “just a matter of semantics,” Reader’s Digest (June 1964).
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“But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.”
Dissenting, Priebe and Sons v. United States, 332 U.S. 407, 420 (1947).
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Kontext: If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
Quoted in National Observer (Silver Spring, Maryland, March 1, 1965).
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“Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines”
Dissenting in Pearce v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 315 U.S. 543, 558 (1942).
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Kontext: The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.
Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534, 540-41 (1961).
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Kontext: Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i. e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system — a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.
Dissenting in New York v. United States, 331 U.S. 284, 353 (1947).
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Barsky v. Board of Regents, 347 U.S. 442, 470 (1954).
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“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.”
Dissenting, Henslee v. Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co., 335 U.S. 600 (1949).
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Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49, 52 (1949).
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“To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.”
Cobbledick v. United States, 309 U.S. 323, 324 (1940).
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Dennis v. United States, 241 U.S. 494, 556 (1951).
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Phelps Dodge Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board, 313 U.S. 177, 185-186 (1941).
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Writing for the court, Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165 (1952). The unanimous decision reversed the conviction of an alleged drug addict because evidence was obtained by forced stomach pumping.
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“Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.”
McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co., 336 U.S. 187, 197 (1949).
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“The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.”
Concurring, American Federation of Labor v. American Sash & Door Co., 335 U.S. 538 (1949).
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A Heritage For All Who Love The Law 51 ABAJ 330 (1965); quoted by United States Senator Howell Heflin during the confirmation debate for Justice David Souter, on September 24, 1990, S13540.
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Davis v. United States, 328 U.S. 582, 597 (1946).
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“The Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.”
On the Fifteenth Amendment; writing for the court, Lane v. Wilson, 307 U.S. 268, 275 (1939).
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“Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.”
Indianapolis v. Chase Nat'l Bank, 314 U.S. 63, 69 (1941).
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Reported in Proceedings in honor of Mr. Justice Frankfurter and distinguished alumni at the meeting of the Council, Harvard Law School Association in Cambridge, April 30, 1960.
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Concurring, United States v. United Mine Workers, 330 U.S. 312 (1946).
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Concurring, Dennis v. United States, 339 U.S. 162, 184 (1950).
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First Iowa Coop. v. Power Comm'n., 328 U.S. 152, 187 (1946).
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“I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.”
Of Law and Life and Other Things: Papers and Address of Felix Frankfurter (1965).
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Foreward, to "Memorial issue for Robert H. Jackson", 55 Columbia Law Review (April, 1955) p. 436; quoted by United States Senator Howell Heflin during the confirmation debate for Justice David Souter, on September 24, 1990, S13540.
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