Felix Frankfurter Quote

A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another occasion indulge its own will.


Concurring, American Federation of Labor v. American Sash & Door Co., 335 U.S. 538, 557 (1949). - Judicial opinions


A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another...

A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another...

A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another...

A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another...