Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day befor… - Felix Frankfurter

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Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

Felix Frankfurter

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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.

No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.

Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. - Felix Frankfurter

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