| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1936 - 828 pages
...to believe that it is the business of courts to sit in judgment on the wisdom of legislative action. Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern. Congress and the courts both unhappily may falter or be mistaken in the performance of their constitutional... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor - Labor - 1939 - 1030 pages
...fitting commentary on these suggestions is that made by Mr. Justice Stone, in another connection, that "courts are not the only agency of Government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern." I may say, parenthetically, that in a recent term of the Supreme Court there were 13 cases that went... | |
| United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration - Agriculture - 1936 - 344 pages
...to believe that it is the business of courts to sit in judgment on the wisdom of legislative action. Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern. Congress and the courts both unhappily may falter or be mistaken in the performance of their constitutional... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1973 - 362 pages
...to believe that it is the business of courts to sit in judgment on the wisdom of legislative action. Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern. Congress and the courts both unhappily may falter or be mistaken in the performance of their constitutional... | |
| Philip B. Kurland - Law - 1975 - 304 pages
...what the law is. That contention was answered by Justice Stone, dissenting in United States v. Butler: "Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern." 297 US 1, 87 (1936). Nota bene: This is not an argument for judicial self-restraint, a la Frankfurter,... | |
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