Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...under challenge by Europe's new rulers, and Cardinal Bellarmine earned the enmity of ecclesiastical conservatives (notably Pope Sixtus V) by maintaining that papal jurisdiction over heads of state was only indirect and spiritual-the position generally accepted today. On the other hand, in opposition to the Scottish jurist Barclay, he denied the divine right of kings, for which one of his books, De potestate papae, was publicly burned by the Parlement of Paris...
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, recorded in talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. Off the bench, the famed jurist is a refreshing, verbally wicked man who rambles on about Presidents, Cabinet members, journalists, as well as about life and law, both of which he loves...
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, recorded in talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. A great jurist's informal recollections make for a stimulating source of Americana...
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, recorded in talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. A great jurist's informal recollections make for a lively, teasing, stimulating source of Americana...
...jurist, Frankfurter offers a refreshing critique of pure reason: "You damned sociologists, you historians who want to get it all nice and fine on paper, you haven't learned how much in this world is determined by non-syllogistic reasoning." On the subject of religion, he is gently detached. He recalls how as a young man, in the midst of a Yom Kippur service, he looked around as pious Jews were "beating their breasts with intensity of feeling and anguishing sincerity," and he decided that his presence among them was "a kind of desecration" since their creed no longer...