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The Other Ordinary Persons, Fred O. Smith, Jr.
The Other Ordinary Persons, Fred O. Smith, Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
If originalism aims to center the original public meaning of text, who constitutes “the public”? Are we doing enough to capture historically excluded voices: impoverished white planters; dispossessed Natives; silenced women; and the enslaved? If not, what more is required? And for those who are not originalists, how do we ensure that, as American law consults the wisdom of the ages, we do not sever entire sources of wisdom?
This brief symposium Article engages these themes, offering two modest, interrelated claims. The first is that important informational, ethical, and democratic benefits accrue when American legal doctrine includes the voices and …
Plessy V. Ferguson – 100 Years Later, Hon. John Minor Wisdom
Plessy V. Ferguson – 100 Years Later, Hon. John Minor Wisdom
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Quotas, Politics, And Judicial Statesmanship: The Civil Rights Act Of 1991 And Powell's Bakke, Mark H. Grunewald
Quotas, Politics, And Judicial Statesmanship: The Civil Rights Act Of 1991 And Powell's Bakke, Mark H. Grunewald
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Slavery, Economic Development And The Law: The Dilemma Of The Southern Political Economists, 1800-1860, Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Slavery, Economic Development And The Law: The Dilemma Of The Southern Political Economists, 1800-1860, Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.