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Court to nine Justices. The new president, Ulysses S. Grant, appointed two line of cases from the 1960’s that deemed voting a fundamental right
poetry. But perhaps not. After all, even Ulysses needed to be tied to the mast. The difficulties for the mortal judge are, as we have noted, that there
added). 161. Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. President, President Grant’s Des Moines Address (Sept. 29, 1875), in 3 ANNALS OF IOWA 138-39 (1897). 162
and bribed members of Congress with Crédit Mobilier shares to continue subsidies. The scandal undermined the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant and later
categorical approach to the First Amendment—indeed, the First Amendment itself—serves as a kind of Ulysses contract: In calm times, the people bind themselves
; see also JON ELSTER, ULYSSES AND THE SIRENS: STUDIES IN RATIONALITY AND IRRATIONALITY (1979) (discussing the design of mechanisms that anticipate and
Sec’y of State, to President Ulysses S. Grant (May 1, 1876), in Message… Id. at 49. The 1873 laws also declared that marriage “is a contract between
that “legislators strongly prefer to remain in office”). See Jon Elster, Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints 88-174
into smaller sizes such that they 1. See JON ELSTER, ULYSSES UNBOUND: STUDIES IN RATIONALITY, PRECOMMITMENT, AND CONSTRAINTS 63-76, 92-95 (2000
41, at 228. 82. Congress was dominated by Republicans, and the Presidency was occupied by Republican Ulysses S. Grant. 83. RONALD KESSLER, THE