ASSOCIATE JUSTICE FELIX FRANKFURTER - ENVELOPE SIGNED CIRCA 1962 - HFSID 101519
Price: $240.00
FELIX FRANKFURTER
1962 postmarked envelope signed by Frankfurter, with a small b/w magazine
photo of him taped on near the left edge
Envelope signed: "Felix Frankfurter", 6½x3½, with 2¼x3¼ b/w magazine
photo of Frankfurter affixed near left edge with tape. Postmarked Washington,
DC, November 15, 1962. With one 3¢ purple-and-white Washington DC
Sesquicentennial stamp affixed. A renowned legal scholar, Frankfurter
(1882-1965, born in Vienna, Austria) influenced Supreme Court decisions
for more than 20 years (1939-1962). A former advisor to the NAACP and
co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, Frankfurter had
affirmed that any form of discrimination against Blacks violated the 15th
Amendment (Lane vs. Wilson,1939). Believing that the Court should
not interfere with laws established by the people's elected officials, he
upheld President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal legislation. In the
realm of civil liberties, Frankfurter would play a pivotal role in deciding
the famous school desegregation case Brown vs. the Board of Education
(1954), ensuring its historic importance by securing a unanimous
decision. He dissented when the Court overturned Minersville West
Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette(1943) and when it
ruled in favor of legislative reapportionment (Baker vs. Carr,
1962), which he felt was strictly a political problem to be solved by the
legislature, not the judiciary. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the staunch
advocate of judicial self-restraint stabilized the liberal Earl Warren
Court and promoted "procedural fairness" in criminal cases. Frankfurter was
presented the Medal of Freedom by John F. Kennedy in 1963. Lightly toned,
soiled and creased. Signature is shaky but legible. Light paper loss on photo on
left edge. Otherwise, fine condition.
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