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Toward A Revisionist History Of The Supreme Court, Mark Tushnet
Toward A Revisionist History Of The Supreme Court, Mark Tushnet
Cleveland State Law Review
The bicentennial year provoked a reconsideration of not only the era of the framing but of constitutional history as a whole. At one point I thought that I might participate in that effort by writing a history of the Supreme Court, updating Robert McCloskey's classic book in light of recent scholarship. It turned out that that project was too daunting for me. There was too much material to assimilate before I could feel comfortable in trying to present or even develop a history of the Supreme Court. This essay is, therefore, only a sketch of a revisionist history of the …