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Mr. Bork Inquires Into The Origin And Nature Of Permissiveness, Lyle Denniston
Mr. Bork Inquires Into The Origin And Nature Of Permissiveness, Lyle Denniston
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law by Robert H. Bork
The Supreme Court In Politics, Terrance Sandalow
The Supreme Court In Politics, Terrance Sandalow
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America by Ethan Bronner
The Supreme Court In Politics., Terrance Sandalow
The Supreme Court In Politics., Terrance Sandalow
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Despite all that has been written about the bitter struggle initiated by President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to a seat on the Supreme Court, its most remarkable feature, that it was waged over a judicial appointment, has drawn relatively little comment. Two hundred years after the Philadelphia Convention, Hamilton's "least dangerous" branch - least dangerous because it would have "no influence over either the sword or the purse, no direction either of the strength or the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever"'-had come to occupy so important a place in the nation's political life …