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Quotes from American Constitutional Law — Laurence Tribe

born 1941 United States

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If the legislature would punish, it must enlist... the other branches—the executive to prosecute, the judicial to try and convict.

American Constitutional Law (1978)

Judicial neutrality necessarily involves taking sides. ...[J]udicial restraint is but another form of judicial activism.

American Constitutional Law (1978)

The inescapable boundaries of societal context and consciousness argue... that [judges] must raise distinctive voices of principle.

American Constitutional Law (1978)

[A]ttempts to treat constitutional doctrine neutrally elide important questions and obscure available answers.

American Constitutional Law (1978)

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