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Reforming the Supreme Court
Buell, Raymond Leslie | June 14, 1922 issue

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The article discusses U.S. Supreme Court reforms. Nearly a hundred years ago, French author and statesman Alexis de Tocqueville said that the power of the American Supreme Court was "the power of public opinion"; but that it would last only "as long as the people respect the law," and that it "would be impotent against popular neglect or contempt of the law." This is a double-edged warning-applying equally to judges and to people-which has lost none of its timeliness with the passing of years. And it should not be pre- sumptuous to reiterate it in the face of recent decisions of the Supreme Court which strike directly at social legislation the necessity for which is almost universally recognized.

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JUSTICE, Administration of; CONSTITUTIONAL courts; ACTIONS & defenses -- United States; REFORMS; UNITED States. Supreme Court; UNITED States
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