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Edward Samuel Corwin
Edward Samuel Corwin (1878–1963) was an influential American political scientist and constitutional law scholar. He was a professor at Princeton University, where he made significant contributions to the study of American constitutional interpretation and political theory. Among his notable works are "The Constitution and What It Means Today" and "Twilight of the Supreme Court," where he analyzed the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in American governance. Corwin's writings helped shape modern understandings of the Constitution, particularly concerning the separation of powers and judicial review.
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CHAPTER I. The Establishment Of The National Judiciary The monarch of ancient times mingled the functions of priest and judge. It is therefore not altogether surprising that even today a judicial system should be stamped with a certain resemblance to an ecclesiastical hierarchy. If the Church of the Middle Ages was "an army encamped on the soil of Christendom, with its outposts everywhere, subject...
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INTRODUCTION It is my purpose in this Introduction to the Constitution of the United States, Annotated to sketch rapidly certain outstanding phases of the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution for the illustration they may afford of the interests, ideas, and contingencies which have from time to time influenced the Court in this still supremely important area of its powers and of the...
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