The tempting of America : the political seduction of the law

ISBN: 0671730142
ISBN: 9780671730147
Physical Description: print xviii, 440 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: New York : Simon &amp; Schuster, 1991.

Summary: "A Touchstone book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-423) and index.

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General Note:	"A Touchstone book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-423) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Creation and fall -- The New Deal court and the constitutional revolution -- The Warren court : the political role embraced -- After Warren : the Burger and Rehnquist courts -- The Supreme Court's trajectory -- The Madisonian dilemma and the need for constitutional theory -- The original understanding -- Objections to original understanding -- The theorists of liberal constitutional revisionism -- The theorists of conservative constitutional revisionism -- Of moralism, moral relativism, and the Constitution -- The impossibility of all theories that depart from original understanding -- In defense of legal reasoning : "good results" vs. legitimate process -- The nomination and the campaign -- The hearings and after -- The charges and the record : a study in contrasts -- Why the campaign was mounted -- Effects for the future.