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"The doctrine of the separation of I powers," wrote Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis in Myers vs. United States, "was adopted ... not to promote efficiency, but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was ... to save the people from autocracy." His ardent disciple Felix Frankfurter, "half brother...
But as it happened, Brandeis was a closet autocrat, and Frankfurter was far from monkish in his ambitions. In this startling volume, Bruce Allen Murphy, an assistant professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University, reveals that two of the nation's most revered Justices simultaneously practiced law and...
The demonstrators and human billboards "made some Congressmen just say, 'Oh, what are the longhairs up to now?' "complained Barbara Tarnow, Brandeis University's financial aid director and a coordinator for the lobby, "especially since a lot of them looked like hell."
"I'm going to do a lot of name dropping." Margaret Sullivan, a Brandeis student and the second at 10 children, said on the bus. Others combed through the packet to compile lists of facts though one warned. "Don't quote any figures because you're likely to get them...
More than 700 students are expected to converge on Washington to meet with their state legislature and other government officials, David B. Marcu, a Brandeis student and chairman of the Student Concision for Soviet Jewry, said yesterday. This year's trip in the sixth annual Washington lobbying effort organized by...