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Felix Frankfurter était un juriste, avocat, professeur, homme politique et juge américain siégeant à la Cour suprême des États-Unis. Originaire de New York, il étudia au City College of New York, avant de brillantes études à Harvard. Il fut nommé à la Cour suprême des États-Unis par Franklin Delano Roosevelt le 30 janvier 1939, exerçant cette fonction jusqu'au 28 août 1962. Il fut professeur de droit à la Faculté de droit de Harvard, et conseilla Roosevelt pour de nombreuses mesures du New Deal. Il est connu comme étant un progressiste, protecteur des libertés civiles, puis fervent défenseur de la retenue judiciaire de la Cour. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. novembre 1882 – 22. février 1965
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Felix Frankfurter: Citations en anglais

“Holmes said Emerson had a beautiful voice, and, of course, Holmes had one of the most beautiful voices the Lord ever put into a throat.”

On Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson, p. 59.
Other writings, Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (1960)

“The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.”

Twenty Years of Mr. Justice Holmes' Constitutional Opinions, 36 HARV. L. REV. 909, 931 (1923).
Other writings

“After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, nor a super-legal-aid bureau.”

Dissent, Uveges v. Pennsylvania, 335 U.S. 437 (1948).
Judicial opinions

“No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.”

The Commerce Clause (1937), p. 12.
Other writings

“The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.”

Concurring, Western Pacific Railroad Corp. v. Western Pacific Railroad Co., 345 U.S. 247, 270 (1953).
Judicial opinions

“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”

Writing for the court, McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332 (1943).
Judicial opinions

“Morals are three-quarters manners.”

Source: Other writings, Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (1960), P. 12. In the interview, Phillips quotes the line to Frankfurter from a letter written by the Justice, and Frankfurter attributes the phrase to a friend named Matthew Arnold.

“In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.”

Concurring, Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 446 (1939).
Judicial opinions

“Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority.”

Adamson v. California, 332 U.S. 46, 59 (1947).
Judicial opinions

“No court can make time stand still.”

Writing for the court, Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. v. FCC, 316 U.S. 4 (1942).
Judicial opinions

“The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.”

Concurring, Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 446 (1939).
Judicial opinions

“In law also the emphasis makes the song.”

Bethlehem Steel Co. v. New York State Labor Relations Board 330 U.S. 767, 780 (1947).
Judicial opinions

“Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.”

Dissenting, Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 270 (1962).
Judicial opinions

“If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."”

McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203, 232 (1948).
Judicial opinions

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