Public Opinion and the United States Supreme Court: Mapping of Some Prerequisites for Court Legitimation of Regime Changes

1968 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter F. Murphy ◽  
Joseph Tanenhaus
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
Regime Changes

scholarly journals The Paradox of Paternalism and Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism: United States Supreme Court, 1888–1921

1987 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aviam Soifer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
Laissez Faire ◽  
The Individual

In 1898, the year Americans first sailed forth to fight in other countries to protect purported victims of imperialism, A. V. Dicey steamed into Harvard University to deliver his lectures on Law and Public Opinion in England. Like William Blackstone, Vinerian Professor before him, Dicey deployed a number of memorable epigrams to capture what seemed basic truths of his day. Dicey's assertion that ‘protection invariably involves disability’ appeared to state the obvious to Americans at the turn of the century.In this essay I will consider how the United States Supreme Court embraced Dicey's epigram and translated it into decisions during the tenures of Chief Justices Fuller and White about the capacity of the individual in the United States to contract and care for himself.

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