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National League of Cities and the Ephemeral Nature of Significant Supreme Court Cases
Author(s) -
HICKOK EUGENE
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of supreme court history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1540-5818
pISSN - 1059-4329
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5818.2009.01219.x
Subject(s) - constitution , supreme court , law , league , reading (process) , institution , political science , state (computer science) , politics , sociology , physics , algorithm , astronomy , computer science
For many years, I taught third‐year law students at the Dickinson School of Law (Penn State's law school now, a private institution then) a seminar entitled “The Constitution.” For a semester we would seek to get to know the document through a careful reading of it, along with some of the works that those who wrote the Constitution would have read and some that they wrote, various essays by legal scholars and political scientists, and various Supreme Court cases. The goal was to get these budding young attorneys to try to determine what, if any, relationship there might be between what the Constitution says and what we now say it says.