Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes(1) BY MR. JUSTICE FELIX FRANKFURTER(2) THE BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO LECTURE before The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, March 18, 1947 A single volume of 320 octavo pages contains all the laws passed by Congress during its first five years, when measures were devised for getting the new government under way; 26 acts were passed in the 1789 ...