[T]he morality of responsible scholarship points not at all to the classic formula of supposedly value-free detachment and allegedly unbiased descrip… - Laurence Tribe

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[T]he morality of responsible scholarship points not at all to the classic formula of supposedly value-free detachment and allegedly unbiased description. Instead such morality points to an avowal of the substantive beliefs and commitments that necessarily inform any account of constitutional arguments and conclusions.

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About Laurence Tribe

Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is an American constitutional law scholar, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at the , and co-founder of the . He is the author of several books, including a major treatise, American Constitutional Law (1978) and has argued before the dozens of times.

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Alternative Names: Laurence Henry Tribe Laurence H. Tribe
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