Judges, Presidents, and the People: Who Should Interpret the Constitution?
Daniel Holder
Published September 2012
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Endnotes
Constitution of the United States. Preamble. art. I, sec. 4, cl. 2.
Kramer, Larry. The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 8.
Burt, Robert. The Constitution in Conflict (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1992).
Constitution of the United States. Preamble.
Burt, Constitution in Conflict, 51.
"Time to Change Congress? Do Your Lawmakers represent All Americans, Or is it Time to Change
Congress?" http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/time-change-congress.
John Locke and Peter Laslet, Two Treatises of Government, student ed. (Cambridge, England:
Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Constitution of the United States, Article II.
Rossiter, Clinton. The American Presidency (2d ed. New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1960),
28.
Constitution of the United States, Article II, Section 3.
Kelly Moeller, "Obama Interview Excerpt: Reaching Across the Aisle," ABC New Blogs: Political
Punch, June 16, 2008. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/06/obama-interview/
Constitution of the United States. Article III. Section 1.
Constitution of the United States. Article III. Section 2.
Founders' Constitution, web ed. James Madison, Federalist, no. 37, 235-37 11 Jan. 1788.
Founders' Constitution, web ed. Alexander Hamilton, Federalist no. 78, June 14, 1788.
Ibid.
Founders' Constitution, web ed. Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut Ratifying Convention, January 7,
1788.
Founders' Constitution, web ed. James Wilson, Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention. December 7,
1787.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Quoted in Larry Kramer, "Marbury and the Retreat from Judicial Supremacy," Constitutional
Commentary 20 (2003).
Founders' Constitution, web ed. Brutus, no. 11, January 31, 1788.
Ibid.
Founders' Constitution, web ed. Brutus, no. 12, February 14, 1788.
Founders' Constitution, web ed. Brutus, no. 15, March 20, 1788.
James Madison, Federalist, no 37.
Bruce Ackerman, The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of
Presidential Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005) 3.
Jeffrey Rosen, The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America, (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2006).
Kathleen Sullivan, and Gerald Gunther. Constitutional Law, 16th ed. (New York: Foundation
Press, 2007) 1-10.
Supreme Court of the United States, Marbury v. Madison, 1803,
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0005_0137_ZS.html.
Ibid.
Erwin Chemerinsky. Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies, 3rd ed. (New York: Aspen
Publishers, 2006).
Andrew Jackson, "Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States," July 10, 1832. Retrieved
from: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/ajveto01.asp
Ibid.
Ibid.
Paul Finkelman, Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford
Books, 1997) 43-46.
Quoted in Paul Brest, Sanford Levinson, Jack Balkin, Reva Siegel, & Akhil Reed Amar, Process
of Constitutional Decisionmaking: Cases and Materials, 4 th ed. (New York: Aspen Pub., 2004)
pp. 211-214.
Ibid.
Franklin Roosevelt, "Fireside Chat on Reorganization of Judiciary" (March 9, 1937)
http://www.mhric.org/fdr/chat9.html.
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