| − | His social conscience made Brandeis a leader of the [[Progressive Era|Progressive Movement]]. From 1897 to 1916, he was in the thick of multiple reform crusades. He fought in Boston to secure honest traction franchises and in 1907 launched a six-year fight to prevent banker [[J. P. Morgan]] from monopolizing New England's railroads. After an expose of insurance fraud in 1906, he devised the Massachusetts plan to protect small wage-earners through savings bank life insurance. He supported the conservation movement and in 1910 emerged as the chief figure in the Pinchot-Ballinger investigation. Like many other progressives of his day, Brandeis was tired of outmoded 18th-century conceptions of liberty.<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard A. Epstein|title=How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-U6QAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA4|year=2007|publisher=Cato Institute|page=4}}</ref> | + | His social conscience made Brandeis a leader of the [[Progressive Era|Progressive Movement]]. From 1897 to 1916, he was in the thick of multiple reform crusades. He fought in Boston to secure honest traction franchises and in 1907 launched a six-year fight to prevent banker [[J. P. Morgan]] from monopolizing New England's railroads. After an expose of insurance fraud in 1906, he devised the Massachusetts plan to protect small wage-earners through savings bank life insurance. He supported the conservation movement and in 1910 emerged as the chief figure in the Pinchot-Ballinger investigation. Like many other progressives of his day, Brandeis was tired of outmoded 18th century conceptions of liberty.<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard A. Epstein|title=How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-U6QAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA4|year=2007|publisher=Cato Institute|page=4}}</ref> |