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Download full textHerbeck, Dale A.; Katsulas, John P. – 1989
Senate confirmation hearings on President Reagan's nominees for the U. S. Supreme Court raise questions about what these nominations tell about law. The controversy that surrounded the confirmation of the Reagan nominees was a direct result of two competing conceptions of law: legal formalism and legal realism. Legal formalism views law as a…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Judges, Court Litigation, Government Role
