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Cardozoian Wisdom
From City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey, 437 U.S. 617:
[The Constitution] was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
Right. So gated communities, private schools, private health care, and all the trappings of the grossly wealthy minority in the U.S. are unconstitutional, right? ;-)
Posted March 21, 2004 03:57 PM | law school
Only if you take the quotation grossly out of context...
Posted by: A. Rickey at March 22, 2004 12:59 AM
My fish is named Cardozo.
Posted by: justin at March 22, 2004 02:16 PM
my Con Law professor's dog is named Cardozo, and her friend the Property professor's is named Posner.
Posted by: monica at March 22, 2004 07:34 PM
Was that originally from the cited case? Because Cardozo uses the same line in Baldwin v. Seelig. Ironically enough, given your economic proclivities, Baldwin is a major free trade (tho between states) case.
At least I found it funny.
Posted by: justin at March 24, 2004 08:58 PM
You're right, Justin. The original is in Baldwin, which I haven't read. I just ran across the same quotation again in Hicklin v. Orbeck, 437 U.S. 518 (1978).
And there's no such thing as free lunch, or free trade. So there.
Posted by: ambimb at March 28, 2004 04:28 PM
