The Common Law Is Not A Brooding Omnipresence In The Sky, But The Articulate Voice Of Some Sovereign Or Quasi Sovereign That Can Be Identified; Although Some Decisions With Which I Have Disagreed Seem To Me To Have Forgotten The Fact.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The Common Law Is Not A Brooding

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Common Law Is Not A Brooding Omnipresence In The Sky, But The Articulate Voice Of Some Sovereign Or Quasi Sovereign That Can Be Identified; Although Some Decisions With Which I Have Disagreed Seem To Me To Have Forgotten The Fact.

Topic

Law

Sky

Voice

The Law Is The Witness And External Deposit Of Our Moral Life. Its History Is The History Of The Moral Development Of The Race.

Race

Moral Development

Law