That Eminent Tribunal

Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

By: Christopher Wolfe (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 November 2004

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The role of the United States Supreme Court has been deeply controversial throughout American history. Should the Court undertake the task of guarding a wide variety of controversial and often unenumerated rights? Or should it confine itself to enforcing specific constitutional provisions, leaving other issues (even those of rights) to the democratic process?

That Eminent Tribunal brings together a distinguished group of legal scholars and political scientists who argue that the Court's power has exceeded its appropriate bounds, and that sound republican principles require greater limits on that power. They reach this conclusion by an interesting variety of paths, and despite varied political convictions.

Some of the essays debate the explicit claims to constitutional authority laid out by the Supreme Court itself in Planned Parenthood v. Casey and similar cases, and others focus on the defenses of judicial authority found commonly in legal scholarship (e.g., the allegedly superior moral reasoning of judges, or judges' supposed track record of superior political decision making). The authors find these arguments wanting and contend that the principles of republicanism and the contemporary form of judicial review exercised by the Supreme Court are fundamentally incompatible.

The contributors include Hadley Arkes, Gerard V. Bradley, George Liebmann, Michael McConnell, Robert F. Nagel, Jack Wade Nowlin, Steven D. Smith, Jeremy Waldron, Keith E. Whittington, Christopher Wolfe, and Michael P. Zuckert.

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"This is a very impressive collection of essays by a group of scholars who are at, or entering, the peak of their careers - and stars and superstars they are." - James R. Stoner, Jr., Louisiana State University, author of Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism; "This is one of the few academic books that leave the reader asking for more rather than less. It is by a group of leading scholars who lament the judicial activism of federal courts over the past half-century, and particularly since Roe v. Wade. The variety and trenchancy of its arguments make it a significant contribution to the scholarly, and popular, debate over judicial power." - Charles R. Kesler, Claremont Institute, Editor of the Claremont Review of Books"

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Introduction	p. 1
Is the constitution whatever the winners say it is?	p. 10
Nationhood and judicial supremacy	p. 20
"Casey at the bat" - taking another swing at Planned Parenthood v. Casey	p. 37
Antijural jurisprudence : the vices of the judges enter a new stage	p. 59
Judicial power and the withering of civil society	p. 85
The academy, the courts, and the culture of rationalism	p. 97
Judicial moral expertise and real-world constraints on judicial moral reasoning	p. 118
Toward a more balanced history of the Supreme Court	p. 141
Judicial reviews and republican government	p. 159
The Casey five versus the federalism five : supreme legislator or prudent umpire?	p. 181
The Rehnquist court and "conservative judicial activism"	p. 199
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