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I always feel that there should be some comfort derived from any question from the bench. It is clear proof that the inquiring Justice is not asleep.
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The people have seemed to feel that the Supreme Court, whatever its defects, is still the most detached, dispassionate, and trustworthy custodian that one system affords for the translation of abstract into concrete constitutional comands.
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We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.
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Robert H. Jackson
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Born:
February 13, 1892
Died:
October 9, 1954
(aged 62)
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Robert Houghwout Jackson was United States Solicitor General, United States Attorney General and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He is the only person in United States history to have held all three of those offices.
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