附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-332) and indexes.
The doctrine of judicial review : Mr. Marshall, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Marbury / Warren E. Burger -- The Supreme Court in the American system of government / Robert H. Jackson -- Advice and consent in theory and practice / Roger J. Miner -- The adversary judge : the experience of the trial judge / Marvin E. Frankel -- What I ate for breakfast and other mysteries of judicial decision making / Alex Kozinski -- Whose federal judiciary is it anyway? / Stephen Reinhardt -- What really goes on at the Supreme Court / Lewis F. Powell Jr. -- The Supreme Court's conference / William H. Rehnquist -- Deciding what to decide : the docket and the rule of four / John Paul Stevens -- The role of oral argument / John M. Harlan II -- Precedent and policy : judicial opinions and decision making / Walter V. Schaefer -- The office of the Chief Justice : Warren E. Burger and the administration of justice / Edward A. Tamm and Paul C. Reardon.
The notion of a living Constitution / William H. Rehnquist -- A relativistic Constitution / William Wayne Justice -- The jurisprudence of judicial restraint : a return to the moorings / J. Clifford Wallace -- Tradition and morality in constitutional law / Robert H. Bork -- What am I, a potted plant? : the case against strict constructionism / Richard A. Posner -- Originalism : the lesser evil / Antonin Scalia -- The Constitution : a living document / Thurgood Marshall -- The Constitution of the United States : contemporary ratification / William J. Brennan Jr. -- Some reflections on the reading of statutes / Felix Frankfurter -- What does legislative history tell us? / Frank H. Easterbrook -- The Bill of Rights / Hugo L. Black -- Guardians of our liberties : state courts no less than federal / William J. Brennan Jr. -- First things first : rediscovering the states' bills of rights / Hans A. Linde.
Trends in the relationship between the federal and state courts / Sandra D. O'Connor -- The role of the courts in contemporary society / Ruggero J. Aldisert -- The courts and social policy : substance and procedure / Henry J. Friendly -- The two faces of judicial activism / William Wayne Justice -- Appendixes.
摘要:A "collection of essays by federal and state jurists, conservatives and liberals ... [providing] insights into the nature and dynamics of the judicial process and various roles of the judge and the courts, especially the U.S. Supreme Court, in the American polity."
