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John Marshall And The Moral Basis For Judicial Review, David F. Forte
John Marshall And The Moral Basis For Judicial Review, David F. Forte
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
During the last two decades, many observers have been disappointed in some of the appointments to the federal bench and in the judicial philosophies some judges have brought with them. But if we turn to the source of our constitutional order, we would find in the example of John Marshall the moral basis for the judicial craft.
Laws Intentionally Favoring Mainstream Religions: An Unhelpful Comparison To Race, Gary J. Simson
Laws Intentionally Favoring Mainstream Religions: An Unhelpful Comparison To Race, Gary J. Simson
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Initiative Enigmas, Richard Collins
Terminator 2, Robert F. Nagel
The Case Of The Prisoners And The Origins Of Judicial Review, William Michael Treanor
The Case Of The Prisoners And The Origins Of Judicial Review, William Michael Treanor
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
For over one hundred years, scholars have closely studied the handful of cases in which state courts, in the years before the Federal Constitutional Convention, confronted the question whether they had the power to declare laws invalid. Interest in these early cases began in the late nineteenth century as one aspect of the larger debate about the legitimacy of judicial review, a debate triggered by the increasing frequency with which the Supreme Court and state courts were invalidating economic and social legislation. The lawyers, political scientists, and historians who initially unearthed the case law from the 1770s and 1780s used …