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To call Souter bookish would be like describing the Grand Canyon as a hole in the ground. In the ramshackle farmhouse nine miles outside Concord where he has lived since he was 11, groaning shelves of books on philosophy, history and the law have won the battle for space. Souter...
At Harvard College, Souter joined Hasty Pudding and majored in philosophy. He wrote his senior thesis on Justice Holmes' belief that a judge should not be influenced by either politics or ideology. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. For a graduation gift, friends put together a scrapbook...
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As for Holmes, "he would simply stress that thecoincidence of law with good law or with law asthe majority desires it, is merely incidental tothe fact that the majority now has the power tocompel recognition of its interests," Souterwrote
In his second chapter, Souter turns thespotlight on critics of positivism, and assessesthe natural law doctrine to which they adhere. Byexamining the theory's prominent writings, Souterconcludes that these theorists unknowingly agreewith Holmes on the four basic characteristics oflaw.