Harlan Stone was an American political figure, lawyer, and jurist. He served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and as the 12th Chief Justice of the United States from 1941 to 1946.
He was also the 52nd United States Attorney General. His most famous dictum was: “Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern”.
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