By the time of our Constitution’s framing, the generally held view was that the legislative power was supreme, and not subject to implied and judicially enforceable limitations in the name of “due process of law” or otherwise. This, for example, was...

62 Tenn. L.Rev. 461, 480–81 (1995); cf. Adam Winkler, Heller's Catch–22, 56 UCLA L.Rev. 1551, 1563 n. 67 (2009). In the 1760s, Blackstone explained that English subjects enjoyed a right to have arms for their defense, “suitable to their condition and...

Ginsburg explains: Articles I, II, and III of the Constitution respectively vest the legislative, executive, and judicial powers each in a separate department of the federal government. This separation of powers, which draws upon ideas advanced by John...

In the 19th century, American and British women's rights -- or lack of them -- depended heavily on the commentaries of William Blackstone which defined a married woman and man as one person under the law. Read more: Women and the Law

Her reaction reflects a bedrock value in America's criminal justice system and, indeed, Western culture. "Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer," observed famed English jurist William Blackstone. Blackstone's 10-1...