ASSOCIATE JUSTICE FELIX FRANKFURTER - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED 06/27/1948 - HFSID 48072
Price: $300.00
FELIX FRANKFURTER
Felix Frankfurter signed and dated this 1945 memorial first day cover
for FDR in 1948.
First Day Cover signed: "Felix Frankfurter/June 27/1948",
6½x3½. Memorial First Day Cover for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with cachet
of FDR in front several radio microphones on left. Postmarked Washington, DC,
June 27, 1945. With one 3¢ Franklin Delano Roosevelt stamp affixed. FIRST
DAY OF ISUE.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 touches postmark but is legible. Vertical fold crease. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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