Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
The Supreme Court, vol. 3, no. 1, Parliamentary Affairs (London, Winter 1949).
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“Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.”
United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, 316 (1941).
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