Hello Family Law Section members,
NJICLE, the New Jersey State Bar Foundation and the NJSBA Senior Lawyers Committee are presenting a seminar that turns back the clock to ponder what the United States would be like without the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review. Meet President Thomas Jefferson and Chief Justice John Marshall at the crux of this pivotal debate in our country’s history.
Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall: Interpreting the Constitution will be held from 9 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. on Dec. 27 at The Mansion in Voorhees, Dec. 28 at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick and Dec. 29 at the Hilton Meadowland, East Rutherford.
President Thomas Jefferson and Chief Justice John Marshall had much in common, but radically different views of the Constitution and the role the federal government should play in the lives of its citizens. Marshall, a federalist, favored a broad interpretation of the constitution, and saw the government as the keystone and fortress of national well-being, it’s powers coming from the implied consent of the governed. Jefferson, a populist and republican, favored restraint in constitutional interpretation, believed in the power of the masses, favored limited government (especially a limited federal government), and saw value in the occasional revolution.
FACULTY
Moderator/Speaker:
Donald Scarinci, Esq.
Scarinci & Hollenbeck, Lyndhurst
Author and Editor, The Constitutional Law Reporter
Author, David Brearley and the Making of the United States Constitution, New Jersey Heritage Press
Speakers include:
Steven Edenbo
Portraying Thomas Jefferson
American Historical Theatre, Philadelphia
Doug Thomas
Portraying John Marshall
American Historical Theatre, Philadelphia
Click the date and location below to register for Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall: Interpreting the Constitution.
December 27 Voorhees
December 28 New Brunswick
December 29 East Rutherford
Click here to download a faxable registration form.
Click here for a form to register a group.
For questions or to register by phone, please contact an association representative at 732-214-8500.
All the best,
Barb
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Barbara Straczynski
Director of New Media and Promotions
New Jersey State Bar Association
New Brunswick NJ
(732) 937-7524
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