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38 U. Rich. L. Rev. 579 (2003-2004)
Judicial Independence

handle is hein.journals/urich38 and id is 591 raw text is: SYMPOSIUM REMARKS JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE The Honorable William H. Rehnquist * I. INTRODUCTION Thank you, Judge Wilkinson.1 This afternoon, I am delighted to participate in the University of Richmond School of Law's Sympo- sium on Judicial Independence. This symposium is being held in honor of Chief Justice Harry Carrico who has served forty-two years on the Supreme Court of Virginia, twenty-two of those years as the Chief Justice. I am pleased to join all of you on this occasion in recognizing his long and distinguished career on the bench. Judicial independence is one of the touchstones of our constitu- tional system of government. I like to think that the belief in the wisdom of an independent judiciary is not confined to judges alone, but is shared by other members of the legal profession and by the public at large. It is easy today to see the need for an inde- pendent judiciary, with the authority to enforce the terms of a written constitution, but back in 1787, when the Founding Fa- thers were drafting our Constitution, it was an entirely novel concept. I believe that the creation of an independent constitu- tional court, with the authority to declare unconstitutional laws * Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States. B.A., 1948, Stanford University; M.A., 1948, Stanford University; M.A., 1949, Harvard University; LL.B., 1952, Stanford Law School. 1. The Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Judge Wilkinson served as Chief Judge of the Fourth Cir- cuit from 1996 to 2003. 579

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