The Rhetoric of Law

Index

Index Act of Supremacy, 72 Adams, John, 107, 234, 235 Adamson v. California, 22, 23, 227, 251-52, 257, 258, 259 Advocacy, 103, 127 Alchemy, IIverbal," 261-74 American Revolution, 104-9, 133 Amherst College, 29-30 Andre, John, 18, 19, 20, 111-26 Andre: A Tragedy in Five Acts (Dunlap), 121 Anglican church, 72, 78-79, 94-95, 102 Antinomy, dialectic of, 61 Antirrhesis, 57-102 Antirrhetici (Nicephorus), 67, 70 Antithesis, 62-70, 77 Apologeticus Major (Nicephorus), 67 Apology, 71-72 Aporia, 89-95 Archetypes, 67 Argument, 37-38 Aristotle, 7-8, 36, 91, 93, 226 Arnold, Benedict, 17-19, 111-32 Arnold, Peggy Shippen, 126 Auden, W. H., 275, 276-77 Augustine, 78 Austin, J. L., 258, 276n4, 304n32 Authoritative texts, 35-37, 38, 4142 , 55. See also Authority Authority, 100, 289, 320, 325; and antirrhesis, 59, 85-88; and constitutional discourse, 227-31, 244, 258, 259-60; and legitimation , 227-31; of monarchs, 8283 , 84; and religion, 72-74, 78, 82-84. See also Authoritative texts Aylmer, Bishop, 77-78, 90, 92 Babylon, 69 Barfield, Owen, 54 Beardsley, Monroe, 242 Benetton's, 24, 263 Benjamin, Walter, 181, 262, 275 Bible, 92, 96-97, 105 Bickel, Alexander, 22-23, 228-32, 250n72 Bill of Rights, 253-54, 256 Black, Hugo, 22, 250-60 Blackstone, William, 106 Board of General Officers, 116 Bodin, Jean, 79, 91 Bolling v. Sharpe, 254 Bracton, Henri de, 88 Bradshaw, Linda, 202, 203, 208-11 Brest, Paul, 242 Brooks trial, 19-20, 135-83; and child abuse, 165-72, 177-78, 182-83; and morality, 165, 16871 ; and racism, 141, 143-49, 160-62, 174, 182 Brown v. Allen, 227-34 Bumiller, Kristin, 151 Burke, Kenneth, 225 335 Bush, Barbara, 207 Burr, Aaron, 132 Calhoun, Evelyn, 206-7, 210, 213, 215 Camden, William, 79, 80, 91 IICanons of decency" standard, 255 Capital trials, 135-83; and bilateral individualism, 161, 172; and child abuse, 165-72, 177-78, 182-83; and Illegitimate force," 142-43; and morality, 165, 16871 ; penalty phase of, 172-77; and the representation of pain, 138-41, 145, 151-53, 158, 16566 , 173, 178; and the violence of poverty, 141, 143, 182-83. See also Brooks trial Carroll, Daniel, 239 Carter, Stephen, 161 Catholicism, 65, 72, 75, 78, 90 Character, and treason, 114-15, 123, 124-25 Christ, 59, 83 Christianity, 65, 83; and antirrhesis , 59, 63-70, 96-97; and the Bible, 92, 96-97, 105; and the Brooks trial, 168-71; and morality , 168-71. See also Reformation ; Religion; Theology Church and state, separation of, 1°5 Cicero, 60 Citizenship, 186, 217, 218, 219-20, 318 Cleaveland of Ipswich, John, 10910 Clinton, Henry, 113, 118 Cobb, Sara, 157n58, 158 Cognition, 307-11, 317 Coke, Edward, 71, 74n51, 74n53, 76-77, 79n70, 80, 86-87 Commentaries (Blackstone), 106 Common law, 57-102, 257 Common Sense (Paine), 124 INDEX Compton, Janie, 200-202, 204, 209, 214-15, 219, 221-22 Conference on Critical Legal Studies (CLS), 280-91 passim, 315, 32 9 Confession, 233 Congress, 35, 116-18, 231, 243, 247 Consent, 149 Constable, Marianne, 8 Constantine V (emperor), 67 Constitution, 41-42, 48, 132, 23156 , 264; Article III, 235, 242-43, 247-48, 249; as an lIauthoritative text," 35, 36; and Bickel's theory of adjudication, 129n14; IIconstitutionality " of, 238-39, 246, 249; First Amendment of, 35-36; Fourth Amendment of, 48-49, 51, 52; Fifth Amendment of, 252, 254, 255, 256; Fourteenth Amendment, 252, 253, 255, 256; lIimaging" the, 238-4°; and Marbury v. Madison, 235, 237; IItextual fecundity" of, 22. See also Constitutional discourse Constitutional discourse, 225-60; and the Black-Frankfurter debate, 250-60; and constitutional colloquy , 257-60; and lIimaging" the Constitution, 238-40; and intentionalism , 240-44, 245, 246; and the Marshallian dilemma, 23450 ; and the rhetoric of legitimation , 227-34; and the rhetoric of reading, 246-50. See also Constitution Continental Army, 104 Contingency, crime of, 89 Cooper, John Fenimore, 114, 12122 Cornell, Drucilla, 136n3, 281, 31 3n47 Countermajoritarian problematic, 228-29 Cover, Robert, 2, 141, 230, 327, INDEX 332; attempt to distinguish legal narratives by, 257-58; "Nomos and Narrative," 322-24; "Violence and the Word," 136, 321 Crown of England, 72-74, 77-79, 82-85 Davies, John, 71, 79 Death penalty, 163-64, 172-83, 321. See also Brooks trial; Capital trials Declaration of Independence, 116 Defense of the New-England Charters (Dummer), 107 De Man, Paul, 26, 267...