SANFORD LEVINSON'S THUMBNAIL HISTORY OF JUDICIAL REVIEW

In this week's Village Voice, University of Texas professor Sanford Levinson has an essay called "Redefining the Center: Liberal Decisions from A Conservative Court." Here's a paragraph where he discusses the task of the essay:

The Warren Court created in liberals a belief in the reality and importance of a strong, vigorous—indeed, "activist"—judiciary protecting vulnerable minorities against majority tyranny. An earlier generation of liberals, though, had agreed with then Harvard law professor Felix Frankfurter that such a strong judiciary was the problem rather than the solution. To understand Frankfurter's concerns, it helps to go all the way back to the Constitution's adoption and to ask which groups have been the beneficiaries of judicial activity.

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