| − | He was born on February 3, 1862, in [[Kentucky]]. He graduated from [[Vanderbilt University]] in [[Nashville]], then he studied [[law]] at the University of [[Virginia]]. After graduating in 1884, he went on to work for [[Howell Jackson]], a Tennessee senator. Later he moved to [[Washington D.C.]] where he worked for the [[Attorney General]]. He practiced law in New York, and in 1913, he was named Attorney General by [[Woodrow Wilson]]. | + | He was born on February 3, 1862, in [[Kentucky]]. He graduated from [[Vanderbilt University]] in [[Nashville]], then he studied [[law]] at the University of [[Virginia]]. After graduating in 1884, he went on to work for Howell Jackson, a Tennessee senator. Later he moved to [[Washington D.C.]] where he worked for the [[Attorney General]]. He practiced law in New York, and in 1913, he was named Attorney General by [[Woodrow Wilson]]. |
| | According to President & Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Wilson was disappointed in the attitude of (McReynolds) (because) "Mr. Wilson is in favor of a latitudinarian construction of the Constitution of the United States to weaken the protection it should afford against socialistic raids upon property rights, with the direct and inevitable result of paralyzing the initiative and enterprise of capital necessary to the real progress of all." | | According to President & Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Wilson was disappointed in the attitude of (McReynolds) (because) "Mr. Wilson is in favor of a latitudinarian construction of the Constitution of the United States to weaken the protection it should afford against socialistic raids upon property rights, with the direct and inevitable result of paralyzing the initiative and enterprise of capital necessary to the real progress of all." |