Book contents
- The Hughes Court
- The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Additional material
- Additional material
- The Hughes Court
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- Part I The Opening Years
- Section A: Setting the Stage
- Chapter 1 Personnel and Organizing Ideas
- Chapter 2 Formulas and Conceptions of Basic Needs: An Overview
- Chapter 3 The Complex World of Simple Formulas
- Chapter 4 Formulas and Considerations of Basic Needs in Business Regulation Cases
- Section B: The False Dawn
- Section C: Crisis
- Section D: The New Constitutional Regime
- Part II Continuities
- Part III New Approaches Begin to Emerge
- Historiographical Essay
- Index
Chapter 3 - The Complex World of Simple Formulas
from Section A: Setting the Stage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
- The Hughes Court
- The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Additional material
- Additional material
- The Hughes Court
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- Part I The Opening Years
- Section A: Setting the Stage
- Chapter 1 Personnel and Organizing Ideas
- Chapter 2 Formulas and Conceptions of Basic Needs: An Overview
- Chapter 3 The Complex World of Simple Formulas
- Chapter 4 Formulas and Considerations of Basic Needs in Business Regulation Cases
- Section B: The False Dawn
- Section C: Crisis
- Section D: The New Constitutional Regime
- Part II Continuities
- Part III New Approaches Begin to Emerge
- Historiographical Essay
- Index
Summary
The chapter discusses several areas, including statutory interpretation, in which the early Hughes Court adopted relatively formalistic approaches to constitutional doctrine and statutory interpretation, and argues that the formalism conceals from view a latent awareness that the decisions wre grounded upon policy considerations as well.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Hughes CourtFrom Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941, pp. 75 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022