Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2006
Abstract
One contribution that law professors can make to constitutional discourse, I suggest, is the nurturing of new mobilizable histories. A "mobilizable history," as I will use the term, is a narrative, image, or other historical source that is sufficiently well-known to the community of constitutional decisionmakers so as to be able to support a credible argument in the discourse of constitutional law. It draws upon materials that are within the collective memory of constitutional interpreters; indeed, a necessary step in nurturing a new mobilizable history is to introduce new information into that collective memory or to raise the prominence of narratives and images that are already included in that memory but marginally so.
Recommended Citation
Primus, Richard A. "Judicial Power and Mobilizable History." Md. L. Rev. 65, no. 1 (2006): 171-96.
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