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Ronald Kahn greatly revises our understanding of Supreme Court decision making and its relation to constitutional theory in the eras of chief justices Earl Warren, Warren Burger, and William Rehnquist. In the process, he refutes the longstanding stereotypes of an activist Warren Court trying to legislate individual rights and of a visionless Burger Court hiding in its predecessor's shadows.

Kahn contends that the dominant view of the Supreme Court as just another political institution is incorrect. That view depicts an unprincipled court wavering before external politics and public...

This is the true story of Ron Gebo, born in Norwich, Connecticut. His life started out with complications during his birth. When the doctor asked his father who did he want to save, if it came down to it, he told the doctor, "Save my wife." To say the least Ron's family was dysfunctional, many broken homes, having moved sixteen times, in sixteen years and countless different schools. Ron developed very bad behavior traits, living mostly in Danielson, Connecticut, which was a borough of Killingly. Danielson was a depressed town in the 1960s and 70s when this young man was growing up. The mills...

This innovative volume explores the evolution of constitutional doctrine as elaborated by the Supreme Court. Moving beyond the traditional "law versus politics" perspective, the authors draw extensively on recent studies in American Political Development (APD) to present a much more complex and sophisticated view of the Court as both a legal and political entity.

The contributors--including Pam Brandwein, Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, Ronald Kahn, Tom Keck, Ken Kersch, Wayne Moore, Carol Nackenoff, Julie Novkov, and Mark Tushnet--share an appreciation that the process of constitutional...