October 1983
Volume 33, 1983FEATURES
Letter from the Paper Planet
OCTOBER 01, 1983 by ERNEST ROSS
From Caves to Computers
OCTOBER 01, 1983 by BETTINA BIEN GREAVES
Why Not Deregulate Labor?
OCTOBER 01, 1983 by JOHN A. DAVENPORT
Judicial Monopoly Over the Constitution: Jefferson's View
OCTOBER 01, 1983 by CLARENCE B. CARSON
Do the Federal courts have a monopoly of the interpretation of the Constitution? Further, are the judges, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions . . ."?[1] There is little reason to doubt that the prevailing view in the country would give a resounding affirmative answer to the first question. There are dissenters, of course, but so far as they are numerous and widely influential, their dissents are to particular decisions or opinions of the courts, not to the propriety of the courts making some decision.
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