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14thColony

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Mon Mar-21-11 07:41 PM
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98. 200 years of U.S. jurisprudence says otherwise

Using just one example of works by the founders; the Federalist Papers were cited in a Supreme Court decision as early as 1789 (Calder v. Bull), and have been quoted nearly 300 times just in Supreme Court decisions since then, not counting citations by lower courts or citations of other works by other founders. Just three examples of the Federalist Papers being cited as providing illumination to a SC decision:

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Federalist_papers
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=US&case=/us/000/99-401.html#FN3.2
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=US&case=/us/000/98-963.html#fn5.9
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?navby=volpage&court=us&vol=415&page=728#728

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