Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People
A presentation from 2024–2025 Shutzer Fellow Nikolas Bowie and 2024–2025 Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor Daphna Renan
Nikolas Bowie is a law professor and historian at Harvard who writes critical legal histories of democracy in the United States at the federal, state, and local level.
Daphna Renan is a law professor at Harvard who writes about presidential power and American constitutional democracy.
At Radcliffe, they will collaborate on a nonfiction book that contests judicial supremacy—the idea that the Supreme Court should have the final say on what the US Constitution allows—and recovers a countervailing tradition rooted in the political constitutionalism of antislavery abolitionism and Reconstruction in which the American people, speaking through Congress, can define the Constitution democratically.
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