Frank Bergen

Public Service R Co V. Wursthorn U.s. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings Frank Bergen

Publisher Marketing: The Making of Modern Law: U. S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This collection serves the needs of students and researchers in American legal history, politics, society and government, as well as practicing attorneys. This book contains copies of all known US Supreme Court filings related to this case including any transcripts of record, briefs, petitions, motions, jurisdictional statements, and memorandum filed. This book does not contain the Court's opinion. The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping ensure edition identification: Public Service R Co v. WursthornPetition / FRANK BERGEN / 1921 / 941 / 259 U. S. 585 / 42 S. Ct. 589 / 66 L. Ed. 1076 / 4-29-1922 Contributor Bio:  Bergen, Frank THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE A LECTURE BY FRANK BERGEN Some time ago, to gratify a curious or per verse impulse, I made some inquiry to learn whether there were two sides to the controversy that led to our Revolutionary War, and, if so, to find out how much of the blizzard of eulogy and oratory, which we accept as history, is veritable fact. I found two sides to the dispute, as you probably know, but have not yet finished the rest of my task. Let me say a word to guard against misunderstanding. I do not think an accurate estimate of the Declaration of Independence can be made without a minute and critical survey of the course of civilization in Europe and America from the break-up of the Dark Ages to the outbreak of the French Revolution. To form an opinion of the document, or of the men who signed it, from a mere reading of its text and an account of the skirmishes from Lexington to Yorktown, would be quite absurd, and yet such an opinion has been formed many times on that meager stock of information. All I shall undertake to do is to remind you of a few facts on one side of a long controversy a controversy in which neither side had a monopoly of righteousness. No doubt, the Declaration of Independence is regarded as one of the beacon lights shining in the course of the long and painful march of the Anglo-Saxon race from the feudal system to rational liberty, fit to be held up with Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, the Bill of Rights, and the Federal Constitution. But whatever may be the final judgment of history on the Declaration if history ever renders any final judgment there can be no harm in turning the famous old document over for a moment and looking at the other side.