Representative Government, Representative Court? The Supreme Court as a Representative Body

Authors

Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-1-2006

ISSN

0026-5535

Publisher

University of Minnesota Law School

Language

en-US

Abstract

In this Symposium Essay, I propose, as a thinking matter, that we expand the number of Supreme Court justices to increase the representation of various demographic groups on the Court. In Part I, I advance the argument that the Court should be regarded as a demographically representative body of the citizens of the United States, and in Part II, I argue that the Court should be enlarged to ensure diverse representation of all voices on the most powerful judicial body of our nation.

Comments

Symposium: The Future of the Supreme Court: Institutional Reform and Beyond

Recommended Citation

Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Representative Government, Representative Court? The Supreme Court as a Representative Body , in 90 Minnesota Law Review 1252 (2006).
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