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Idea or Practice: A Brief Historiography of Judicial Review

Mary Sarah Bilder
Boston College - Law School



Journal of Policy History, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 6-26, 2008
Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 156

Abstract:     
Judicial review may be the most publicly contested aspect of American constitutionalism. The conventional beliefs that judicial review should be understood as an idea and American constitutionalism studied as a new rationalistic, political science are largely due to the influential scholarship of Edward Corwin. This brief essay recovers the pre-Corwin discussion about the origins of judicial review to demonstrate the way in which the approach to judicial review as an idea has been, itself, historically constructed by scholarly inclination, disciplinary identification, and the availability of historical materials

Keywords: Marbury v. Madison, American legal history, judicial review

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Date posted: May 21, 2008 ; Last revised: May 21, 2008

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Bilder, Mary Sarah, Idea or Practice: A Brief Historiography of Judicial Review. ; Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 156. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1134831


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