Pocket Constitutions, Warren Burger, and The Rule of Law
Pocket Constitutions recently got a lot of publicity. Some people had them and showed them off. Other people didn't have them but wished they did. I've got a pocket Constitution. I got mine in 1986 from former Chief Justice Warren Burger. It was my first year at the Federal Judicial Center and Chief Justice Burger was working very closely with our director, Prof. Leo Levin, on planning the bicentennial celebration of the Constitution's creation in 1787. One night I was leavin