An overview of court review for constitutionality in the United States

Louisiana Law Review

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1019-1027

  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader ^a  

^a Supreme Court of the United States ^*  (United States)

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References (21)

1. See John Minor Wisdom, Dedication: Judge Alvin Rubin, 52 La. L. Rev. 1371, 1371-72 (1992).
2. Id. at 1376.
3. Texas v. Hopwood, 116 S. Ct. 2581 (1996) (opinion respecting the denial of the petition for a writ of certiorari).
4. Id.
5. See Alvin B. Rubin, Hazards of a Civilian Venturer in a Federal Court: Travel and Travail on the Erie Railroad, 48 La. L. Rev. 1369, 1371 (1988).
6. 5 U.S. 137 (1803).
7. The equality principle, stated in the Declaration of Independence, received concrete constitutional recognition in the Fourteenth Amendment, which became "law of the land" in 1868. The original Constitution, in contrast, preserved the slave trade until 1808 (U.S. Const. art. I, § 9), and required the return of fugitive slaves (U.S. Const. art. IV, § 2). On the absorption of an equality norm into the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, see Bolling v. Sharp, 347 U.S. 497, 74 S. Ct. 693 (1954).
8. Ruiz v. Estelle, 679 F.2d 1115, 1163 (5th Cir. 1982), cert. denied, 460 U.S. 1042, 103 S. Ct. 1438 (1983).
9. Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, 420 U.S. 636, 95 S. Ct. 1225 (1975).
10. Id. at 655, 95 S. Ct. at 1237.
11. The Federalist 79 (Clinton Rossiter ed. 1961).
12. La. Sup. Ct. R. 12.
13. Texas v. Hopwood, 116 S. Ct. 2581 (1996). See supra note 3.
14. See Rubin, supra note 5, at 1370-78.
15. 115 S. Ct. 1624 (1995).
16. See generally Louis Henkin, The Age of Rights (1990). This text draws particularly from Rights: American and Human, in id. at 143 and Rights: Here and There, in id. at 157.
17. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856).
18. See Bolling v. Sharp, 347 U.S. 497, 74 S. Ct. 693 (1954).
19. H.R. Doc. No. 377, 78th Cong., 2d Sess. (1944), reprinted in 90 Cong. Rec. 55, 57 (1944).
20. United States v. Virginia, 116 S. Ct. 2264 (1996).
21. See William H. Rehnquist, Dedicatory Address: Act Well Your Part: Therein All Honor Lies, 7 Pepperdine L. Rev. 227, 229-30 (1980).