A Declaration of Legal Faith

Rutledge, Wiley. A Declaration of Legal Faith. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1947. 197 pp. Reprint available October 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-448-7. Cloth. $65. * Justice Rutledge [1894-1949] was the last of Franklin Roosevelt's appointments to the Supreme Court and a staunch defender of the New Deal. In this book he states his faith in judicial and governmental activism. He elaborates these principles in the second part, "The Commerce Clause: A Chapter in Democratic Living," which addresses changing judicial interpretations of the Constitutional delegation of power to regulate commerce. He concludes that the commerce clause's pre-eminence in the scheme of federation ensured the adoption of the Constitution and preserved its success ever since.Wiley Rutledge is the author of 'A Declaration of Legal Faith', published 2004 under ISBN 9781584774488 and ISBN 1584774487.