Viewing Justice Calvin L. Brown: "State and Federal Police Power." (1908).Justice Calvin L. Brown: "State and Federal Police Power." (1908).On the evening of December 3, 1908, Calvin L. Brown, Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, delivered a paper on governmental "police powers"---- what is called regulation today ---- to the Minnesota Academy of Social Sciences. A constitutional conservative, he did not believe that this power could be defined with precision, preferring a case-by-case examination of whether it is being misused. |