When constitutional worlds collide: resurrecting the Framers' Bill of Rights and criminal procedure. From: Michigan Law Review | Date: October 1, 2001| Author: Thomas, George C., III | COPYRIGHT 2001 Michigan Law Review Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

Different Constitutional Worlds

For two hundred years, the Supreme Court has been interpreting the Bill of Rights. Imagine Chief Justice John Marshall sitting in the dim, narrow Supreme Court chambers, (1) pondering the interpretation of the Sixth Amendment right to compulsory process in United States v. Burr. (2) Aaron Burr was charged with treason for planning to invade the Louisiana Territory and create a separate government there. (3) To help ...