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 class in America, and yet in an article in the Green Bag, October 1911, on the "Judges as Law Makers" he says:

If this is true, why all this bother about representative government? Why not do away with it at once or turn it all over to the courts?

Perhaps the courts are not all wise; perhaps the fathers who made the constitution were wiser than they may seem to the learned product of our so-called