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Words That Bind: Judicial Review And The Grounds Of Modern Constitutional Theory, John A. Drennan
Words That Bind: Judicial Review And The Grounds Of Modern Constitutional Theory, John A. Drennan
Michigan Law Review
A Review of John Arthur, Words That Bind: Judicial Review and the Grounds of Modern Constitutional Theory
Noam Chomsky And Judicial Review, James G. Wilson
Noam Chomsky And Judicial Review, James G. Wilson
Cleveland State Law Review
This Commentary will consider four authorities who are hardly considered standard-bearers of the Left: Aristotle, Edmund Burke, James Madison, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Insights from Aristotle, Burke, Madison, Holmes, and Chomsky will be combined into following set of propositions: (1) the Supreme Court has a constitutional and historical obligation to resist tyranny and other forms of constitutional perversion and factionalism; (2) the Supreme Court has a unique duty and capacity to combat abuses of private power; (3) private corporations and the well-to-do have gained so much power that they have become a dangerous faction that is turning our government …