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100 1 _aBork, Robert H
245 1 4 _aThe tempting of America :
_bthe political seduction of the law /
_cRobert H. Bork
264 1 _aNew York :
_bFree Press ;
_aLondon :
_bCollier Macmillan,
_c[1990]
264 4 _c©1990
300 _axiv, 432 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references
505 0 _aThe Supreme Court and the temptations of politics. Creation and fall: The first principles of the social compact ; The divided John Marshall ; Chief Justice Taney and Dred Scott: the court invites a Civil War ; The spirit of the Constitution and the establishment of justice ; Judicial activism in the service of property and free enterprise -- The New Deal court and the Constitutional revolution: Federalism and sick chickens ; Roosevelt fails, then succeeds, in remaking the court ; The court stops protecting Federalism ; Economic due process abandoned ; the discovery of "Discrete and insular minorities" ; Laying the foundation for substantive equal protection -- The Warren court: the political role embraced: Arrested legal realism ; Brown v. Board of Education: Equality, segregation, and the original understanding ; One person, one vote: the restructuring of state governments ; Poll taxes and the new equal protection ; Congress's power to change the Constitution by statute ; Applying the Bill of Rights to the states ; The right of privacy: the construction of a Constitutional time bomb -- After Warren: the Burger and Rehnquist courts: The transformation of Civil Rights law ; Judicial moral philosophy and the right of privacy ; The First Amendment and the Rehnquist court -- The Supreme Court's trajectory
505 0 _aThe theorists. The Madisonian dilemma and the need for Constitutional theory -- The original understanding: The Constitution as law: neutral principles ; Neutrality in the derivation of principle ; Neutrality int he definition of principle ; Neutrality in the application of principle ; The original understanding of original understanding ; The claims of precedent and the original understanding -- Objections to original understanding: The claim that original understanding is unknowable ; The claim that the Constitution must change as society changes ; The claim that there is no real reason the living should be governed by the dead ; The claim that the Constitution is not law ; The claim that the Constitution is what the judges say it is ; The claim that the philosophy of original understanding involves judges in political choices ; "The impossibility of a clause-bound interpretivism" -- The theorist of liberal Constitutional revisionism: Alexander M. Bickel ; John Hart Ely ; Laurence Tribe ; More liberal revisionists of the Constitution ; Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. -- The Theorists of conservative Constitutional revisionism: Bernard Siegan ; Richard A. Epstein ; Justice John Marshall Harlan ; A judicial philosophical free-for-all -- 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
505 0 _aThe bloody crossroads. The nomination and the campaign -- The hearings and after -- The charges and the record: a study in constrasts: The Civil rights of racial minorities ; The Civil rights of women ; Big business, government, and labor ; Freedom of speech under the First Amendment -- Why the campaign was mounted -- Effects for the future
520 _aJudge Bork offers a statement of his social and legal philosophy
600 1 0 _aBork, Robert H
650 0 _aJudicial power
_zUnited States
650 0 _aJudicial review
_zUnited States
650 0 _aPolitical questions and judicial power
_zUnited States
650 0 _aConstitutional law
_zUnited States
650 0 _aConstitutional law
_zUnited States
_xInterpretation and construction
653 0 _aJudicial review
653 0 _aUnited States
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aBork, Robert H.
_tTempting of America.
_dNew York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1990
_w(OCoLC)606528919
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