The Supreme Court and Edmund Burke

Even though the Supreme Court of these United States was born merely a few years before Edmund Burke died, that statesman said much which applies to the curious conduct of the Court in recent years. This point is made-by Mr. C. P. Ives, of the Baltimore Sun, in a lively and learned essay called “Edmund Burke and the Legal Order.”

This pertinent study is to be found in a symposium-volume just published. The Relevance of Edmund Burke (Kennedy). This book has a foreword by Dr. Louis I. Bredvold and a summary by your servant. Inside its covers are three other valuable essays which every student of Burke’s thought and career ought to read: Dr. Peter J. Stanlis on “Edmund Burke in the Twentieth Century,” Father Francis Canavan on “Burke as a Reformer,” and Professor Ross Hoffman on “Burke as a Practical Politician.” Copies ($3.95) may be obtained directly from the volume’s editor, Dr. Peter Stanlis, Department of English, the University of Detroit, McNichols Road, Detroit, Michigan.

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Even though the Supreme Court of these United States was born merely a few years before Edmund Burke died, that statesman said much which applies to the curious conduct of the Court in recent years. This point is made-by Mr. C. P. Ives, of the Baltimore Sun, in a lively and learned essay called “Edmund Burke and the Legal Order.”

This pertinent study is to be found in a symposium-volume just published. The Relevance of Edmund Burke (Kennedy). This book has a foreword by Dr. Louis I. Bredvold and a summary by your servant. Inside its covers are three other valuable essays which every student of Burke’s thought and career ought to read: Dr. Peter J. Stanlis on “Edmund Burke in the Twentieth Century,” Father Francis Canavan on “Burke as a Reformer,” and Professor Ross Hoffman on “Burke as a Practical Politician.” Copies ($3.95) may be obtained directly from the volume’s editor, Dr. Peter Stanlis, Department of English, the University of Detroit, McNichols Road, Detroit, Michigan.