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Lewis F. Powell Jr. was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice whose plurality opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) defined affirmative action law for the next 25 years.
Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Reagan in 1981, and for many years the Court's decisive swing vote.
The constitutional doctrine, developed by Montesquieu, that political liberty requires dividing governmental power among separate institutions (legislative, executive, judicial) so each can check the others.
German political and legal theorist — Nazi party member and 'Crown Jurist of the Third Reich' — whose concepts of the exception, sovereignty, and the political have been widely influential across the ideological spectrum.