04860cam a2200457 a 4500 10072 10072 20295984 OCoLC 20210209125520.0 890808t19901990nyu b 001 0 eng GB9245555 bnb 0029037611 9780029037614 (OCoLC)20295984 (OCoLC)27012431 (OCoLC)59968798 (OCoLC)805945092 DLC eng DLC FCI UKM NLGGC BTCTA YDXCP BAKER KEU TXAPL GEBAY OCLCQ KSU TXP OCLCQ TAMCT OCLCF OCLCO KAG IAD DEBBG UtOrBLW n-us--- KF5130 B734T 347.73/012 347.30712 20 B734T Bork, Robert H The tempting of America : the political seduction of the law / Robert H. Bork New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, [1990] ©1990 xiv, 432 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references The 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 The 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 The 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 Judge Bork offers a statement of his social and legal philosophy Bork, Robert H Judicial power United States Judicial review United States Political questions and judicial power United States Constitutional law United States Constitutional law United States Interpretation and construction Judicial review United States Online version: Bork, Robert H. Tempting of America. New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1990 (OCoLC)606528919 ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC HMC HMC GEN 2021-02-17 0 347 B734T 011576 2021-02-17 00:00:00 2021-02-17 BK