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A. Benjamin N. Cardozo
Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo was a distinguished jurist who had been appointed
to the court by President Hoover to fill the seat of the legendary Oliver
Wendell Holmes. Modest in demeanor and with a strong philosophical bent,
he was the author of four volumes of essays on the philosophy of law prior
to being appointed to the court. One historian would say of Cardozo, "Except
for Holmes himself, Justice Cardozo was the preeminent judge of the first
half of the twentieth century. Indeed, Cardozo was the outstanding common-law
jurist of the twentieth century."
In his landmark rulings, Cardozo said of the
Social Security Act:
“The hope behind this statute is to save men and women from the rigors
of the poor house as well as from the haunting fear that such a lot awaits
them when journey's end is near.” |
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