Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1988
Abstract
It is a very great honor to be here today participating in the Third Circuit Judicial Conference and in the celebration of our two hundred years of government under the remarkable document that we call the Constitution of the United States. Philadelphia is indeed today the center of the universe and I am delighted to be here.
In addressing the topic assigned to me, "The Origins of Judicial Review," I will take my cue, in fact my text, from Judge Pollak, who, in a letter to me, suggested that I "draw in broad strokes the legal historical landscape in which this astonishing political innovation took root and flourished." Intentionally or, as I suspect, otherwise, Judge Pollak thereby presented me with a heuristic tool (and, far more important, with an opportunity to use the word heuristic," an academic o.k. word these days).
Disciplines
Judges | Law | Legal History
Recommended Citation
Barbara A. Black,
An Astonishing Political Innovation: The Origins of Judicial Review,
49
U. Pitt. L. Rev.
691
(1988).
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