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33 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. v (2008)

handle is hein.journals/jspcth33 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction Melvin I. Urofsky Over the years, I have found that when I am wearing my hat as a constitutional histo- rian, I often have cause to look into the back issues of the Journal. Occasionally it is be- cause I am working on a fairly standard item and recall that we have published something in that area. Other times I recall a somewhat idiosyncratic piece that just might have a piece of information that will help illustrate a partic- ular point. This issue carries both types, and each is important in understanding the Court's history. While there have been more Justices than Presidents, there have been far fewer mem- bers of the Court than Senators and especially Representatives. As a result, it is possible to take something like where a particular person is buried and discover a great deal about who he was. George Christensen got interested in where the Justices are buried a number of years back, and he wrote his first article for the So- ciety on that subject in 1983. Since then more Justices have gone to their reward, some have been reinterred, and mistakes about supposed burial sites have been discovered. Christensen has personally visited all but one of the Jus- tices' gravesites, and he now presents an up- dated version of his research. Because Justices, unlike members of the executive or legislative branches, are appointed and require Senate confirmation, we have the occasional situation of a President's first choice either not being confirmed or of having the nomination recalled for a variety of rea- sons. In rare instances, this may happen more than once. Artemus Ward has done some read- ing onthis and has come up witha light-hearted piece on the Good Old # 3 Club, as Jus- tice Harry Blackmun used to call it. There is also a # 5 Club, and some people believe that Robert Grier is the only member of that se- lect body. However, it all depends on how one counts ... Readers know that each year we have two competitions for the Hughes-Gossett prizes. One is given to the best article in the Journal each year. The other goes to a student es- say, with the winning entry published in the Journal. This year's student winner is Con- stance Martin, whose essay is on the ju- risprudence of Justice Robert H. Jackson- another reminder, if we needed one, that this v

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