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Judicial Criticism, James Boyd White
Judicial Criticism, James Boyd White
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Today I shall talk about the criticism of judicial opinions, especially of constitutional opinions. This may at first seem to have rather little to do with our larger topic, "The Constitution and Human Values," but I hope that by the end I will be seen to be talking about that subject too. In fact I hope to show that in what I call our "criticism," our "values" are defined and made actual in most important ways.
I will begin with a double quotation. I recently heard my friend and colleague Alton Becker, who writes about language and culture, begin a …