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Robert H. Jackson on Government

1892–1954 United States

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It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

For a century every contest with the Supreme Court has ended in evading the basic inconsistency between popular government and judicial supremacy.

The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study in Crisis in American Power Politics (1941)

I cannot be brought to believe that this country will suffer if the Court refuses further to aggrandize the presidential office, already so potent and so relatively immune from judicial review, at the expense of Congress.

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