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The Good American Legislator: Some Legal Process Perspectives And Possiblilities, Robert F. Blomquist Jul 2015

The Good American Legislator: Some Legal Process Perspectives And Possiblilities, Robert F. Blomquist

Akron Law Review

In this Article, I intend to sketch some theoretical attributes of the good American legislator...In Part I of the Article, I will discuss the original legal process jurisprudence of the 1940s and 1950s, and will attempt to tease out of this body of thought concepts that bear on defining the good American legislator. In Part II, I turn, successively, to the three offshoots of the original legal process material, written over the last twenty years: process formalists, process progressives and process pragmatists. I do this in order to uncover insights that might further our understanding of the good American legislator. …