...or perfectionist, but as a practical man. In discussing a state taxing statute, he spoke21 of it as "a pursuit of legitimate ends by methods honestly conceived and rationally chosen," and added, "more will not be asked by those who have learned from experience and history that government...

...Court held invalid a state sales tax, graduated according to volume, in the Stewart Dry Goods case," Mr. Justice Cardozo entered eloquent protest. The...compromise will be inevitable until the coming of Utopia." Few men have, with such wholehearted humility, practiced that tolerance for human experimentation which...

...exercise of the general will in a perverse or vengeful spirit. Far from being these or any of them, it is a pursuit of legitimate ends by methods honestly conceived...compromise will be inevitable until the coming of Utopia." In 1937, when the Court did an about-face and accepted pivotal New Deal measures, Cardozo's commitment...

...exercise of the general will in a perverse or vengeful spirit. Far from being these or any of them, it is a pursuit of legitimate ends by methods honestly conceived...compromise will be inevitable until the coming of Utopia."10 In January 1935 the Supreme Court rejected its first New Deal measure: a provision of the...

...abandonment of reason, no exercise of the general will in a perverse or vengeful spirit," but rather "a pursuit of legitimate ends by methods honestly conceived and rationally chosen." Cardozo observed that no more should be required of legislatures by judges "who have learned from experience...