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25 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 1 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/jspcth25 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction Melvin I. Urofsky Chairman, Board of Editors It has now been seven years since I took over as editor of this Journal, and I am con- stantly surprised at the infinite variety of sub- jects that fall within the rather broadly defined topic of Supreme Court history. To quote Shakespeare, it is an ever-changing delight. I hope the readers share my pleasure at the wide range of topics discussed between our covers. This issue is a case in point. The first article grows out of a sister enterprise of the Society, the Documentary History of the early Supeme Court, headed by Dr. Maeva Marcus. Although we assume that there have always been clean lines between the different branches of government-indeed, we believe that the Constitution mandates such a separa- tion of powers-the fact of the matter is that early in our history government was very fluid, and the members of each branch real- ized that there would be times when murki- ness rather than clarity would be desirable in relations among the branches. Elliott Ashke- nazi, one of the associate editors of the Docu- mentary History project, explores one such instance in an area of law about which we hear little these days, admiralty. Salmon P. Chase did not become Chief Justice until the Lincoln administration, a time when most things Jacksonian had been repudiated. Yet according to Mark A. Graber, time moves more slowly in the judicial branch than it does in the legislative or executive, whose members must face re-election periodi- cally. Just as Franklin D. Roosevelt's appoint- ees continued to have an impact on the Court through the Warren era, so, Graber claims, the Jacksonian nominees laid the basis for an ac- tivism that would have appalled Old Hickory. When we think of the Supreme Court and criminal justice, we rarely think of the people involved, concentrating instead on the princi- ples enunciated. For example, we know far more about the Miranda warning than we do about Miranda the man. If it had not been for Anthony Lewis's classic Gideon's Trumpet -and the movie made from it starring Henry Fonda-we would probably not know too much about the cause of one of the Court's great cases, Gideon v. Wainwright. In the late 1

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