The Supreme Court Historical Society

OFFICERS

Honorary Chairman - Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (1969-1986), Chairman - Erwin N. Griswold, President - Justin A. Stanley

PUBLICATIONS COMMITEE

Kenneth S. Geller, Chairman

Donald B. Ayer, Louis R. Cohen, Michael H. Cardozo, Philip B. Kurland

BOARD OF EDITORS

Michael H. Cardozo, Chairman

Thomas Baker, Walter Gellhorn, Craig Joyce, Michael W. McConnell, David O'Brien, Charles Alan Wright

MANAGING EDITOR

Clare Cushman

CONSULTING EDITORS

Kathleen Shurtleff, Jane Alexandra Walsh (illustrations), Patricia R. Evans (research), James J. Kilpatrick, David T. Pride

THE SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Honorary Chairman - Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States (1969-1986), Chairman President - Erwin N. Griswold, Leon Silverman, First Vice President - Alice L. O'Donnell, Vice President - Frank C. Jones, E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., Virginia Warren Daly, Secretary Treasurer - Peter A. Knowles

Noel J. Augustyn, Robert S. Banks, Barbara A. Black, Hugo L. Black, Jr., Robert L. Breeden, Vincent C. Burke, Jr., Patricia Dwinnell Butler, William T. Coleman, Jr., F. Elwood Davis, Charlton Dietz, William Edlund, Thomas W. Evans, Wayne Fisher, Charles 0. Galvin, Kenneth S. Geller, Frank B. Gilbert, S. Howard Goldman, William T. Gossett, Francis M. Gregory, Jr., Fulton Haight, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Lita Annenberg Hazen, Joseph H. Hennage, William E. Jackson, Robb M. Jones, Stanley N. Katz, James J. Kilpatrick, Earl W. Kintner, Rex E. Lee, George S. Leisure, Jr., Sol M. Linowitz, Howard T. Markey, William Barnabas McHenry, Richard A. Moore, Norman E. Murphy, Phil C. Neal, Dwight D. Opperman, Charles B. Renfrew, John R. Risher, Jr., William P. Rogers, Walter S. Rosenberry, III, Kenneth Rush, Fred Schwengel, Bernard G. Segal, John C. Shepherd, Justin A. Stanley, Obert C. Tanner, M. Truman Woodward, Jr.

General Counsel - J. Jonathan Schraub

Executive Director - David T. Pride

Assistant Director - Kathleen Shurtleff

CONTRIBUTORS

Richard S. Arnold is a United States Circuit Judge on the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Maxwell Bloomfield is Professor of History and Law at The Catholic University of America.

James M. Buchanan served as Associate Editor of The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1789-1800, from 1980-1988. He is now Program Director of the District of Columbia Center of the National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law.

Warren E. Burger is the Chairman of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution and served as Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. He is also a Life Member of the Society and serves as its Honorary Chairman.

Norman Dorsen is Stokes Professor of Law at New York University Law School. He served as President of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1976 to early 1991. Professor Dorsen was Justice John Marshall Harlan's law clerk during the 1957-58 Term.

Paul Goldberger is architecture critic for The New York Times.

David M. O'Brien is Professor and Graduate Advisor in the Department of Government at the University of Virginia. He is also a member of the Society's Board of Editors.

Robert M. O'Neil is the Founding Director of The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr. served as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1972 to 1987 and is a member of the Society.

William H. Rehnquist was appointed Associate Justice in 1972 and assumed the office of Chief Justice of the United States in 1986.

Robert G. Seddig is Professor of Political Science at Allegheny College.

D. Grier Stephenson, Jr., is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Government at Franklin and Marshall College. A co-author of the text American Constitutional Law, and the author of numerous other works on that subject. Professor Stephenson regularly contributes "The Judicial Bookshelf" to the Journal and is a member of the Society.

General Statement

The Supreme Court Historical Society is a private non-profit organization, incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1974. The Society is dedicated to the collection and preservation of the history of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Society seeks to accomplish its mission by supporting historical research, collecting antiques and artifacts relating to the Court's history, and publishing books and other materials which which public awareness of the Court's contribution to our Nation's rich constitutional heritage.

Since 1975, the Society has been publishing a Quarterly newsletter, distributed to its membership, which contains short works on the Court's history and articles detailing the Society's programs and operations. In 1976, the Society began publishing an annual collection of scholarly articles on the Court's history entitled the Yearbook which was renamed the Journal of Supreme Court History in 1990.

The Society initiated the Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1789-1800 in 1977with a matching grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). The Supreme Court became a co-sponor in 1979 since that time the Project has completed three of its expected eight volumes, with a fourth volume to be pubished in early 1992.

The Society also co-publishes Equal Justice Under Law, a 165-page illustrated history of the Court, in cooperation with the National Geographic Society. It co-sponsored in 1986 the 300-page Illustrated History of the Supreme Court of the United States. It co-sponsored with the Court, the publication of the United States Supreme Court Index to Opinions in 1981, and is currently funding a ten-year update of that volume. The Society is is also currently developing a collection of illustrated biographies of the Supreme Court Justices which will be published in cooperation with Congressional Quarterly, Inc. in late 1992.

In addition to its research/publications projects, the Society is now cooperating with the Federal Judicial Center to develop a pilot oral history project on the Supreme Court. The Society is also conducting an active acquisitions program which has contributed substantially to the completion of the Court's permanent collection of busts and portraits, as well as period furnishing, private papers and other artifacts and memorabilia relating to the Court history. These materials are incorporated into displays for the benefit of the Court's 800,000 annual visitors which are prepared by the Court Curator's Office.

The Society also funds outside research, awards cash prizes to promote scholarship on the Court and sponsors or co-sponsors various lecture series and other educational colloquia to further public understanding of the Court and its history.

The Society ends 1991 with approximately 4,000 members whose financial support and volunteer participation in the Society's standing and ad hoc committees enable the organization to function. These committees report to an elected Board of Trustees and an Executive Committee, the latter of which is principally responsible for policy decisions and for supervising the Society's permanent staff.

Requests for additional information should be directed to the Society's headquarters at 111 Second Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002, Tel. (202)543-0400.

The Society has been determined eligible to receive tax deductible gifts under Section 501 (c) (3) under the Internal Revenue Code.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Officers and Trustees of the Supreme Court Historical Society would like to thank the Charles Evans Hughes Foundation for its generous support of the publication of this Journal.

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