biography
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Stone, Harlan (Fiske)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1872–1946)
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| biography:
| Lawyer and judge, born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, USA. He studied at Columbia, practised law, and served as dean of the Columbia Law School (1910–23) before being appointed Federal attorney general. He was appointed an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court in 1925 and Chief Justice in 1941. He upheld the view that in matters of constitutionality, except where questions of individual liberty were involved, courts should defer to legislatures. He also developed the constitutional test for the regulation of inter-state commerce. Many of his 600 opinions were on important constitutional questions, but during his chief justiceship the Supreme Court was often bitterly divided. |
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