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[M]uch of what our Supreme Court does involves filling in the "great silences of the Constitution"...

Laurence Tribe

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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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So the written Constitution, the one we can see, fails to tell us just what's in it and what's not.

[A]ttempting to organize and give structure to the study of legal silence has been a primary purpose of much of what I have written and taught over the past half-century.

My interest is less in what's invisible "around" the Constitution than in what is invisible within it.

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