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• W4361029294 abstract "The Supreme Court in United States History: A New Appreciation Michael Allan Wolf From a perspective long removed in terms of time and experience, I can still recall my first encounter with Charles Warren’s Pulitzer Prize winner that still serves as the standard insti­ tutional history ofthe Court. My undergradu­ ate constitutional history professor and I were engaged in a lively discussion concerning the nature of sovereignty and states’ rights in the wake of the Union victory in the Civil War. He pulled from an office shelfa well-worn vol­ ume from his set of Warren’s time-honored narrative.1 The professor proceeded to read the text and what impressed me most was the sensible, politi­ cally practical observation of the commentator: This decision [Texas v. White?] has constituted one of the landmarks in American history. It settled forever the question whether a State could legally secede, and it confirmed the permanence of the Union. Neverthe­ less, it has frequently been considered logically unsatisfactory in its reason­ ing; and the dissenting opinion . . . seems more easily to be supported .... The decision came, however, as a welcome solution to a greatly vexed and debated question; and Chase’s opinion, though adverse to the ex­ treme claims of Thaddeus Stevens and the Radicals, who deemed the se­ ceding States entirely out of the Union and properly subject to any legislation Congress chose to enact, was equally adverse to the claim of the Demo­ crats, who held that Congress had no power whatever to withhold from these States any of the rights which they had possessed before the war. The general views and plans of the more moderate Reconstruction states­ men were in complete consonance with the language of the opinion; and the growing fears lest the Court would interfere with their plans were thus allayed.3 This was a revelation. The author of this passage, though impressed more with the logic ofthe dissent, complimented the majority for so skillfully maneuvering very rough political wa­ ters and thus deemed the Court’s effort a suc­ cess. Law was not just the stilted, confusing 162 CHARLES WARREN REVISITED rhetoric of cases and statutes; it had an intimate relationship to the world outside. During law school, references to Warren’s work were few and fleeting—most were buried in footnotes designed to direct the reader to an­ tiquarian findings or interesting facts about Su­ preme Court history. Even in the legal history course, Warren’s insights and discoveries would be mere asides or quaint digressions, for the de­ velopment oflegal doctrine over time dominated the syllabus and class discussions. Graduate study brought new encounters and a greater appreciation for the scope and rich­ ness of Warren’s work. Harvard Law School professor Morton Horwitz, who directed my reading in the history ofAmerican law, included in his essential reading list Warren’s A History oftheAmerican Bar,4 in which the author dem­ onstrates his unabashed admiration for the com­ mon law as logical, adaptable, and responsive to political and societal changes. Some might find it surprising that one of the founders ofthe Critical Legal Studies movement would assign such an orthodox text, particularly one that was intended “not [as] a law book for those who wish to study law ... [but as] an historical sketch for those who wish to know something about the men who have composed the American bar of the past, and about the influences which pro­ duced the great American lawyers.”5 In fact, the assignment made perfect sense, for it dem­ onstrated that the appreciation of law as poli­ tics was neither novel nor radical in American legal historiography. At the time his most famous work appeared, Charles Warren, a Boston, Harvard-educated lawyer with Mayflower and American Revolu­ tion roots (James and Mercy Otis Warren were his great-great-grandparents), was practicing in Washington, D.C. After a successful, though controversial term as chairman of the Massa­ chusetts Civil Service Commission (during which he incurred the wrath ofa powerful ward boss), Warren in 1914 began four years of ser­ vice as assistant attorney general in the Wilson administration, a post that he resigned owing to his outspoken advocacy of the..." @default.
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