{"id":784,"date":"2019-08-05T12:29:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/105-online\/practice-and-precedent-in-historical-gloss-games\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:32:59","slug":"practice-and-precedent-in-historical-gloss-games","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/submit\/glj-online\/105-online\/practice-and-precedent-in-historical-gloss-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice and Precedent in Historical Gloss Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historical practices can help define the separation of powers. One branch\u2019s claim of authority and another branch\u2019s acquiescence can put a \u201cgloss\u201d on the sparse text of Articles I\u2013III, especially when repeated over time. . . . [W]e try to explain why courts were on the sidelines of these gloss games and why other disputes over Article III are likely to reflect a similar structure. The key, we think, lies in a distinctive feature of judicial decision making: the doctrine of stare decisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/05\/Blocher-Lemos-105GeoLJOnline1.pdf\">Continue reading <em>Practice and Precedent in Historical Gloss Games<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historical practices can help define the separation of powers. One branch\u2019s claim of authority and another branch\u2019s acquiescence can put a \u201cgloss\u201d on the sparse text of Articles I\u2013III, especially when repeated over time. . . . [W]e try to explain why courts were on the sidelines of these gloss games and why other disputes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-784","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24301,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/784\/revisions\/24301"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}