| Institution: | William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a former president of both the American Historical Association and the Society of American Historians.
This essay had its origin in a lecture delivered in the Supreme Court Chamber on October 10, 1996, under the sponsorship of the Supreme Court Historical Society with Justice Anthony Kennedy as chair. Since I had recently published a book on this subject, I resolved to retell the story not, as is usually done, from the perspective of the President or Congress but from that of the Justices. |
