Word: flinch
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...functions of the nation and the States, he defined the powers of the legislatures, and made clear the conception and theory of the American doctrine of constitutional law. He was not overweening in his assumption of the power of the court, but, on the other hand, he did not flinch from asserting what he believed its proper authority; or in his own words he "never sought to enlarge the judicial power beyond its proper bounds, nor feared to carry it to the fullest extent that duty required...