The Path of the Law
| Authors | Holmes, Oliver Wendell |
| Series | Project Gutenberg [2373.0] |
| Tags | Law, Law -- History |
| Publisher | Project Gutenberg |
| Published | 26 gen 1897 |
| Date | 11 mar 2016 |
| Languages | eng |
| Identifiers | uri: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2373 |
| Formats | EPUB |
Description
Cdl. Burke gets it right when he said in Remaining in the Truth of Christ:
Regarding law, in general, there has developed the notion that the law has no relation to objective truth but is constituted by whatever man, usually the judge, decides.²⁸ Such a theory was proposed in my homeland, the United States of America, already in 1897 by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.²⁹
Footnote 29 cites the article:
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Path of Law.
Holmes wrote 1926 Supreme Court majority opinion in favor of sterilization/eugenics (cf. The Eugenics Crusade 2018 🧲 link @ circa 1h23m)