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...Warren Court," said McCloskey, "has been the most active in American constitutional history. In fact, never in the history of world jurisprudence has a court played such a salient part in the governing of a nation...
...McCloskey said that the Supreme Court must fulfill three functions: "preceptor of political morality"; a "governing body," that is, an organization whose authority is accepted and whose laws are "feasible"; and protector of "the reason and rational continuity of our constitutional...
Robert G. McCloskey, Jonathan Trumbull professor of American History and Government, said yesterday that the Warren Court has "failed to provide rational links between the pronouncements and policies of today and the principles of the Constitution...
...McCloskey, who generally praised the Court before a crowd in Emerson Hall for the Thursday afternoon Lecture Series, said that he "felt justified in mustering two cheers, but not three," for the Court...
...Warren Court has performed as moral preceptor pretty well," McCloskey said. "When Warren's term began, the American constitutional house was in a surprisingly primitive state ... the Supreme Court under Warren has remodeled it extensively, and, I think, wisely. It has helped bring America, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century, and if we haven't quite made it, it's not the Court's fault...