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On The Early History Of Lower Federal Courts, Judges And The Rule Of Law (Review Of Two Titles), Alfred S. Konefsky Mar 1981

On The Early History Of Lower Federal Courts, Judges And The Rule Of Law (Review Of Two Titles), Alfred S. Konefsky

Book Reviews

Review of Kermit L. Hall, The Politics of Justice: Lower Federal Judicial Selection and the Second Party System and Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, Federal Courts in the Early Republic: Kentucky 1789-1816.


Popular Justice: A History Of American Criminal Justice, Michigan Law Review Mar 1981

Popular Justice: A History Of American Criminal Justice, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal Justice by Samuel Walker


Constitutional Interpretation, Terrance Sandalow Jan 1981

Constitutional Interpretation, Terrance Sandalow

Articles

"[We] must never forget," Chief Justice Marshall admonished us in a statement pregnant with more than one meaning, "that it is a constitution we are expounding."' Marshall meant that the Constitution should be read as a document "intended to endure for ages.to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."'2 But he meant also that the construction placed upon the document must have regard for its "great outlines" and "important objects."'3 Limits are implied by the very nature of the task. There is not the same freedom in construing the Constitution as in constructing a …