“If a thing has been practised for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Jackman v. Rosenbaum Co., 260 U.S. 22, 31 (1922).
1920s

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United States Supreme Court justice 1841–1935

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