Frases de Felix Frankfurter
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Felix Frankfurter foi um advogado, professor e jurista Austríaco-Americano, que serviu como Associado de Justiça da Suprema Corte dos Estados Unidos. Frankfurter serviu no Supremo Tribunal de 1939 a 1962, e foi um notável defensor da restrição judicial nos julgamentos do Tribunal.

Frankfurter nasceu em Viena e migrou para a Cidade de Nova Iorque, aos 12 anos de idade. Após se formar pela Escola de Direito de Harvard, Frankfurter trabalhou para o Secretário de Guerra, Henry L. Stimson. Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, Frankfurter serviu como Juiz, Advogado-Geral. Após a guerra, ele ajudou a fundar a União Americana de Liberdades Civis e retornou à sua posição como professor na Escola de Direito de Harvard. Ele tornou-se amigo e conselheiro do Presidente Franklin D. Roosevelt, que o nomeou para preencher a vaga decorrente da morte de Benjamin Cardozo.

Frankfurter serviu à Corte até sua aposentadoria em 1962, e foi sucedido por Arthur Goldberg. Frankfurter relatou a opinião da maioria em casos como Minersville School District v. Gobitis, Gomillion v. Lightfoot e Beauharnais v. Illinois. Escreveu opiniões discordantes em casos notáveis como Baker v. Carr, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, Glasser v. United States e Trop v. Dulles. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Novembro 1882 – 22. Fevereiro 1965
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Felix Frankfurter: Frases em inglês

“Holmes said Emerson had a beautiful voice, and, of course, Holmes had one of the most beautiful voices the Lord ever put into a throat.”

On Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson, p. 59.
Other writings, Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (1960)

“The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.”

Twenty Years of Mr. Justice Holmes' Constitutional Opinions, 36 HARV. L. REV. 909, 931 (1923).
Other writings

“After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, nor a super-legal-aid bureau.”

Dissent, Uveges v. Pennsylvania, 335 U.S. 437 (1948).
Judicial opinions

“No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.”

The Commerce Clause (1937), p. 12.
Other writings

“The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.”

Concurring, Western Pacific Railroad Corp. v. Western Pacific Railroad Co., 345 U.S. 247, 270 (1953).
Judicial opinions

“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”

Writing for the court, McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332 (1943).
Judicial opinions

“Morals are three-quarters manners.”

Fonte: Other writings, Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (1960), P. 12. In the interview, Phillips quotes the line to Frankfurter from a letter written by the Justice, and Frankfurter attributes the phrase to a friend named Matthew Arnold.

“In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.”

Concurring, Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 446 (1939).
Judicial opinions

“Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority.”

Adamson v. California, 332 U.S. 46, 59 (1947).
Judicial opinions

“No court can make time stand still.”

Writing for the court, Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. v. FCC, 316 U.S. 4 (1942).
Judicial opinions

“The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.”

Concurring, Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 446 (1939).
Judicial opinions

“In law also the emphasis makes the song.”

Bethlehem Steel Co. v. New York State Labor Relations Board 330 U.S. 767, 780 (1947).
Judicial opinions

“Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.”

Dissenting, Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 270 (1962).
Judicial opinions

“If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."”

McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203, 232 (1948).
Judicial opinions