Table of Contents

Introduction1.A Bench Happily Filled: Some Historical Reflections on the Supreme Court Appointment Process, Henry Abraham 2. Preserving Federalism: Reconstruction and the Waite Court, Michael Les Benedict 3. Civil Liberties and the American Supreme Court, Loren P. Betch4. On the Warren Court and Judicial Review, Jesse H. Choper 5. The Role of the Supreme Court in American History, Archibald Cox 6. Decision-Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policy-Maker, Robert A. Dahl 7. The Wages of Crying Wolf: A Comment on Roe v. Wade , John Hart Ely8. McCleskey v. Kemp:Race, Capital Punishment, and the Supreme Court, Randall L. Kennedy9. The Supreme Court in Periods of Critical Realignment, William Lesser10. The Supreme Court as Republican Schoolmaster, Ralph Lerner11. The Origins of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Court-Packing Plan, William E. Leuchtenburg12. Judicial Activism: Old and New, Alpheus Thomas Mason13. The Origins and Historical Understanding of Free Exercise of Religion, Michael W. McConnell14. Supreme Court Superstars: The Greatest Justices, Bernard Schwartz15. States' Rights and the Origins of the Supreme Court's Power as Arbiter in Federal-State Relations, John R. Schmidhauser16. Racist Speech, Democracy, and the First Amendment, Robert C. Post17. The Birth Order Oddity in Supreme Court Appointments, Paul J. Weber18. The Integrity of Holmes' Jurisprudence, G. Edward White19. The Supreme Court, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Three Faces of Constitutional Equality, J. Harvie Wilkinson III20. A Theory of U.S. Constitutional History, Christopher WolfeAcknowledgments