Our Nine Tribunes: The Supreme Court in Modern America

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• Our Nine Tribunes *
• Our Nine Tribunes - The Supreme Court in Modern America *
• Contents *
• Acknowledgments *
• Introduction *
• 1 - Underlying Observations and Analysis *
• 2 - A Proposal for Testing Legitimacy *
• 3 - Fragmentation of the Court and the Loss of Simplicity *
• 4 - Sup with the Devil: the Supreme Court's Self-Inflicted Wounds *
• 5 - The Place of Taboo in Constitutional Law *
• 6 - The Racial Cases *
• 7 - The Carolene Products Footnote *
• 8 - The Maxim "Ut Res Magis ... ": a Synthesis of Warring Approaches to Constitutional Adjudication *
• 9 - Judicial Review: a Wasting Asset? *
• 10 - Universal Kinship and the Court *
• Appendix - Correspondence Among the Justices Concerning the Carolene Products Footnote, Facsimiles of the Several Drafts, and Some Personal Recollections *

• Our Nine Tribunes *
• Our Nine Tribunes - The Supreme Court in Modern America *
• Contents *
• Acknowledgments *
• Introduction *
• 1 - Underlying Observations and Analysis *
• 2 - A Proposal for Testing Legitimacy *
• 3 - Fragmentation of the Court and the Loss of Simplicity *
• 4 - Sup with the Devil: the Supreme Court's Self-Inflicted Wounds *
• 5 - The Place of Taboo in Constitutional Law *
• 6 - The Racial Cases *
• 7 - The Carolene Products Footnote *
• 8 - The Maxim "Ut Res Magis ... ": a Synthesis of Warring Approaches to Constitutional Adjudication *
• 9 - Judicial Review: a Wasting Asset? *
• 10 - Universal Kinship and the Court *
• Appendix - Correspondence Among the Justices Concerning the Carolene Products Footnote, Facsimiles of the Several Drafts, and Some Personal Recollections *
• Notes *
• Selected Bibliography *
• Cases Index *
• Subject Index *
• About the Author *