I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

Tribe won the intercollegiate National Debate Tournament in 1961 and coached the Harvard debating team to another national championship in 1969. Tribe is widely recognized as a leading liberal scholar of constitutional law. Early life and education
Tribe was born in Shanghai China the son of Paulina (née Diatlovitsky) and George Israel Tribe.

Tribe is widely recognized as a leading liberal scholar of constitutional law. He is the author of American Constitutional Law (1978) a treatise in that field and has argued before the United States Supreme Court 35 times. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University.