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- The Hughes Court
- The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Additional material
- Additional material
- The Hughes Court
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- Part I The Opening Years
- Part II Continuities
- Section A: Administrative Law
- Section B: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
- Chapter 23 The Uncertainties of Theory
- Chapter 24 Progressivism, Prohibition, and Organized Crime
- Chapter 25 Race, Criminal Justice, and “Labor Defense”
- Chapter 26 Race and Strategic Litigation
- Chapter 27 The Hughes Court and Radical Political Dissent
- Chapter 28 The Hughes Court and Radical Religious Dissent
- Section C: Justiciability
- Part III New Approaches Begin to Emerge
- Historiographical Essay
- Index
Chapter 23 - The Uncertainties of Theory
from Section B: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
- The Hughes Court
- The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Additional material
- Additional material
- The Hughes Court
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- Part I The Opening Years
- Part II Continuities
- Section A: Administrative Law
- Section B: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
- Chapter 23 The Uncertainties of Theory
- Chapter 24 Progressivism, Prohibition, and Organized Crime
- Chapter 25 Race, Criminal Justice, and “Labor Defense”
- Chapter 26 Race and Strategic Litigation
- Chapter 27 The Hughes Court and Radical Political Dissent
- Chapter 28 The Hughes Court and Radical Religious Dissent
- Section C: Justiciability
- Part III New Approaches Begin to Emerge
- Historiographical Essay
- Index
Summary
Having endorsed expansive exercises of government power to regulate the economy, the Court’s more liberal members had to figure out how to justify limiting that power in connection with civil rights and civil liberties. Here they were assisted by their conservative colleagues' sensibilities, an inchoate blend of libertarianism with the civil rights legacy of the Republican Party. Progrssive political theory, as articulated by John Dewey, provided the liberals with few resources, but they too had sensibilities and sympathies that made them comfortable with enforcing civil rights and civil liberties against governments even as they withdraw from doing the same in conneciton with economic regulation.
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- The Hughes CourtFrom Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941, pp. 551 - 564Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022