This essay appears in the Winter–Fall 2012 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.   In the fall of 1983, the newly established Center for Judicial Studies published the premier issue of Benchmark: A Bimonthly Report on the Constitution and the Courts. James McClellan, president of the center, was its editor, and … Continue reading James McClellan, [em]Benchmark[/em], and an Informed Public