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  David Brewer
David Brewer was born in what is present-day Turkey in January 1837, the son of Christian missionaries.
Brewer was a judge for the last 40 years of his life, first in the Supreme Court of Kansas, then as a federal circuit court judge, and, beginning in 1890, in the Supreme Court.
Brewer was a devout Christian, penning an opinion in 1892 in Church of the Holy Trinity v.
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 Getting to Know Supreme Court Justice David J. Brewer
Associate Supreme Court Justice David Brewer wrote the Court's Opinion for the Church of the Holy Trinity v.
It is unlikely that Brewer had any official input to that case since he hadn't been confirmed yet but he might have had discussions with his uncle over it.
Brewer was one of the first of a very few people who have tried to weave and build a case for the words "Sunday Exempted" in the section of the Constitution laying out vetoes.
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 David Josiah Brewer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Josiah Brewer (January 20, 1837-March 28, 1910), was an American jurist.
Brewer was born to a family of Congregational missionaries in Turkey.
Brewer attended college at Wesleyan University and Yale University, graduating from the latter in 1856.
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 David Josiah Brewer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
David Josiah Brewer (January 20, 1837-March 28, 1910), was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations) jurist.
Brewer was born to a family of (Click link for more info and facts about Congregational) Congregational missionaries in (A Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923) Turkey.
Brewer attended college at (Click link for more info and facts about Wesleyan University) Wesleyan University and (A university in Connecticut) Yale University, graduating from the latter in 1856.
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 David Brewer
David Josiah Brewer was born to an American missionary family in Smyrna, Asia Minor (now Izmir, Turkey), on June 20, 1837.
Brewer studied law under the supervision of his maternal uncle, David Field, and completed a one-year course at the Albany Law School in 1858.
Brewer was appointed Commissioner of the Circuit Court in Leavenworth (1861) and Judge of the Probate and Criminal Courts of Leavenworth County (1863).
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 Misc Pennsylvania Brewer records/notes
Peter Brewer was born in Northumberland Co., Penn, in 1790 during early manhood located near Richmond, on the Indiana and Jefferson Co. line, and after his marriage removed to East Mahoning township, Indiana Co., where he took up a tract of government land and improved a farm.
Daniel Brewer, of this sketch, was born Sept. 28, 1826, on the old homestead in Indiana Co., where he grew to manhood, receiving his education in the common schools of the neighborhood.
Brewer was stricken with sicatic rheumatism, and was later discharged at Fredericksburg on account of disability.
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 The Supreme Court Historical Society
David Josiah Brewer's long career as a jurist spanned most of the reform era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
His uncle, the distinguished lawyer David Dudley Field, who helped to guide his namesakes' early legal career, was a conspicuous advocate of the arbitration of international disputes.[1] Perhaps also contributing to Brewer's antipathy to war was the fact that one of his brothers lost his life in the Civil War.
Brewer was appointed to 'serve on the tribunal, as was Chief Justice Melville W Fuller.
www.supremecourthistory.org /04_library/subs_volumes/04_c19_h.html   (3593 words)

  
 David J. Brewer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
David Josiah Brewer was born in what is now Turkey; his father was a Congregational missionary.
Brewer spent virtually all his professional life in government service, moving from moderate liberalism as a state judge to strident conservatism as a federal judge.
Brewer lived up to the reputation that preceded him to the Supreme Court; he was an active contributor to the doctrine of substantive due process.
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 Justice David Josiah Brewer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
By a romantic accident [Justice Brewer] was born of American missionary parents in Asia Minor, not so far from that Hellenized Roman province in which St. Paul was born, and in which he passed his boyhood.
In the reports of this period there are to be found 719 opinions written by Justice Brewer, in 157 of which he dissented from the conclusions of the majority of the court.
Justice Brewer was a son of a Christian missionary, and the son's life, like the father's was one of service.
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 Lochner v. New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New York's regulation of the working hours of bakers was not a justifiable restriction of the right to contract freely under the 14th Amendment's guarantee of liberty.
Associate Justices: John Marshall Harlan, David Josiah Brewer, Henry Billings Brown, Edward Douglass White, Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Joseph McKenna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
New York, 198 U.S.) was a controversial case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that a law limiting working hours was unconstitutional because it interfered with a "right to contract" implicit in the due process clause.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lochner_v._New_York   (543 words)

  
 Brewer, David Josiah --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Brewer, David J. Supreme Court justice from 1889 to 1910.
In Judaism, God is believed to have promised David an eternal dynasty, and his royal line came to symbolize the primary bond between God and the nation of Israel.
Josiah Johnson Hawes collaborated with Albert Sands Southworth to produce some of the finest daguerreotypes of the early 19th century.
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 Getting to Know Supreme Court Justice David J. Brewer
Associate Supreme Court Justice David Brewer wrote the Court's Opinion for the Church of the Holy Trinity v.
It is unlikely that Brewer had any official input to that case since he hadn't been confirmed yet but he might have had discussions with his uncle over it.
Brewer was one of the first of a very few people who have tried to weave and build a case for the words "Sunday Exempted" in the section of the Constitution laying out vetoes.
www.members.tripod.com /~candst/brewer.htm   (1641 words)

  
 Muller v. Oregon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oregon's limit on the working hours of women was constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, because it was justified by the strong state interest in protecting women's health.
The Court had found that the regulation was not a reasonable regulation of the Due Process freedom of contract because the law was unnecessary to protect the health or safety of bakers.
In Justice David Josiah Brewer's unanimous opinion in Muller, however, the Court upheld the Oregon regulation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muller_v._Oregon   (450 words)

  
 David J. Brewer
Born in 1837 in Smyrna, Asia Minor, Brewer came to Kansas Territory in 1858 and established his law practice in Leavenworth.
His lengthy judicial career began in 1861 with an appointment as Commissioner of the Federal Circuit Court and led to his appointment in 1889 as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
His judicial philosophy was described as "moderate conservative." Justice Brewer often voted with the court's majority in striking down progressive laws restricting property rights, but he wrote the courts opinion on the famous Muller vs. Oregon case which upheld the constitutionality of a law limiting working hours for women in industry.
www.kshs.org /portraits/brewer_david.htm   (186 words)

  
 David Brewer Gravesite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Mike's Notes: David Josiah Brewer was the first of four Supreme Court appointments during the single term in office of President Benjamin Harrison.
What finally decided it was a letter written by Brewer in which he expressed the hope that Harrison would choose Brown.
By his confirmation, Brewer became the first justice to serve with a blood relative, as he was the nephew of Justice Stephen Field.
www.thecemeteryproject.com /Graves%202/brewer-david.htm   (132 words)

  
 Leavenworth County, Part 17   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER, was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 20, 1837.
His father, Rev. Josiah Brewer, was a missionary to the Greeks in Turkey at the time of his birth.
Was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1822, and resided in her native place until she was twenty-six years of age, then moved to Indianapolis, and removed from there to Kansas, where she is now engaged in the practice of her profession, in the City of Leavenworth.
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 Brewer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their mascot, Bernie Brewer is famous for sliding into a mock mug of ale whenever the home team hits a home run.
Their minor league affiliates in Arizona and Helena, Montana are also called the Brewers.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
----------------------------------------------------------------------- DAVID JOSIAH BREWER was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 20, 1837, the son of the Rev. Josiah Brewer, who was missionary of the Congregational Church to Turkey.
His mother was Emalie, daughter of Rev. David Field, of Stockbridge, Mass., and a sister to Cyrus W. Field, of Atlantic cable fame, and Stephen J. Field, at one time chief justice of the supreme court.
Justice Brewer married June 5, 1901, Miss Emma Minter Mott, of Burlington, Vt. He died March 28, 1910, and is buried at Leavenworth.
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"This is atheism's moment," brags David Steinberger, CEO of Perseus Books, celebrating the tremendous success of anti-God bestsellers like "God is Not Great: Why Religion Poisons Everything" by journalist Christopher Hitchens and "The God Delusion" by Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.
Even U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Josiah Brewer, in the high court's 1892 "Church of the Holy Trinity v.
"How atheism is being sold to America" by David Kupelian, who takes readers on an eye-opening guided tour of the spiritual battlefield between faith and denial.
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 David Josiah Brewer - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
David Josiah Brewer - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about David Josiah Brewer contains research on
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 BREWER FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Brewer is a place located in the State of Maine: see Brewer,_Maine.
Their mascot, Bernie_Brewer is famous for sliding into a mock mug of ale whenever the home team hits a home_run.
''Brewer's_Dictionary_of_Phrase_and_Fable'', known as '''"Brewer's"''', is a reference work.
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 David Josiah Brewer Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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 C Brewer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Brewer is a place located in the State of Maine : see Brewer, Maine.
Their mascot, Bernie Brewer is famous for sliding into a mock mug of ale whenever the home teamhits a home run.
Brewer'sDictionary of Phrase and Fable, known as "Brewer's", is a reference work.
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 Liberty Magazine
It was a case about whether the government could penalize a church for hiring a minister from another country, in violation of laws prohibiting importation of immigrants under employment contracts.
Brewer, in his opinion, did not define what he meant by the phrase.
The separation of church and state was a characteristic of a Christian nation for Justice Brewer: “Indeed, the very fact that [America] has no Established Church makes one of its highest credentials to the title of a Christian nation.
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 David Josiah Brewer - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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 Brewer, David J. --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Brewer's parents, American missionaries in Turkey, returned to the United States after his birth.
The second ruler of the united kingdom of Israel and Judah was David.
In 1992 the American Library Association awarded David Wiesner the prestigious Caldecott Medal for ‘Tuesday' (1991).
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 Divorce & Remarriage in the Bible. (C) David@Instone-Brewer.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Judah is warned that she may suffer the same fate as Israel, who was sent away with a divorce certificate (3.6-11).
For (their successors) worshipped the Ashtoreth, and that which had been revealed was hidden (5) until Zadok arose, so David's works were accepted, with the exception of Uriah's blood, (6) and God forgave him for them.
There then follows a long explanation of King David's polygamy, arguing that he was ignorant of the Law because it was hidden during his time.
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 Brewer, David Josiah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Brew'er, DAVID JOSIAH (1837-1910), an American jurist, born at Smyrna, Asia Minor, the son of an American missionary.
He graduated at Yale in 1856, studied law with his uncle, David Dudley Field, graduated at Albany Law School in 1858 and practiced in Leavenworth, Kan., where he served successively as probate judge, district judge and justice of the state supreme court.
President Harrison appointed him associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1889, and he was a member of the Venezuelan Boundary Commission and arbitration tribunal.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Brentano to Brewington
Brewer, A. — of Ogden, Weber County, Utah.
Brewer, Alex — of Fairburn, Custer County, S.Dak. Republican.
Brewer, Francis Beattie (1820-1892) — of New York.
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