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The Benefits And Evils Of Competition”: James Coolidge Carter’S Supreme Court Advocacy, Lewis Grossman

Lewis A. Grossman

This chapter examines the Supreme Court advocacy of James Coolidge Carter, a leading legal theorist, practicing attorney, and political reformer of the Gilded Age. Carter was perhaps the most respected appellate advocate in the country at the end of the nineteenth century. He argued some of the most important cases of the Gilded Age. He defended the federal income tax, a Chinese immigrant denied reentry into the United States pursuant to a racist immigration restriction statute, and also argued seminal cases concerning the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and the recognition of foreign judgments in American courts. In this essay, …