Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-376).
Contents:
Pt. I. Judicial review and American politics: historical and political perspectives -- The doctrine of judicial review: Mr. Marshall, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Marbury / Chief Justice Warren E. Burger -- The Supreme Court in the American system of government / Justice Robert H. Jackson -- Pt. II. The dynamics of the judicial process -- The "fight" theory versus the "truth" theory / Judge Jerome Frank -- The adversary judge: the experience of the trial judge / Judge Marvin E. Frankel -- The business of the U.S. District Courts / Judge D. Brock Hornby -- What I ate for breakfast and other mysteries of judicial decision making / Judge Alex Kozinski -- Whose federal judiciary is it anyway? / Judge Stephen Reinhardt -- What really goes on at the Supreme Court / Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. -- The Supreme Court's Conference / Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist -- Deciding what to decide: the docket and the Rule of Four / Justice John Paul Stevens -- The role of oral argument / Justice John M. Harlan II -- The dissent: a safeguard of democracy / William O. Douglas -- Pt. III. The judiciary and the Constitution -- Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States / Joseph Story -- The path of law / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. -- The judge as a legislator / Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo -- The notion of a living Constitution / Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist -- A relativistic Constitution / Judge William Wayne Justice -- The jurisprudence of judicial restraint: a return to the moorings / Judge J. Clifford Wallace -- Tradition and morality in constitutional law / Judge Robert H. Bork -- What am I, a potted plant? The case against strict constructionism / Judge Richard A. Posner -- Originalism: the lesser evil / Justice Antonin Scalia -- Judging / Clarence Thomas -- The Constitution: a living document / Justice Thurgood Marshall -- The Constitution of the United States: contemporary ratification / Justice William J. Brennan Jr. -- Originalism and history / John Paul Stevens -- On constitutional interpretation / David H. Souter -- Speaking in a judicial voice: reflections on Roe v. Wade / Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Our democratic Constitution / Justice Stephen G. Breyer -- Against constitutional theory / Judge Richard A. Posner -- Pt. IV. Our dual constitutional system: the Bill of Rights and the states -- The Bill of Rights / Justice Hugo L. Black -- Guardians of our liberties: state courts no less than federal / Justice William J. Brennan Jr. -- First things first: rediscovering the states' Bills of Rights / Justice Hans A. Linde -- What does - and does not - ail state constitutional law / Jeffrey S. Sutton -- State Courts at the dawn of a new century: common law courts reading statutes and Constitutions / Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye.
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