Part I: Judicial Review and American Politics
Warren E. Burger
Chapter 1: The Doctrine of Judicial Review: Mr. Marshall, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Marbury
Marbury v. Madison: Act One, The Setting
Marbury v. Madison: The Second Act
Robert H. Jackson
Chapter 2: The Supreme Court in the American System of Government
The Supreme Court as a Unit of Government
Federal Power v. State Power
Part II: The Dynamics of the Judicial Process
Trial Judges and the Adversarial Process
Appellate Judges and the "Caseload Crisis"
The Supreme Court and the Judicial Process
Jerome Frank
Chapter 3: The "Fight" Theory versus the "Truth" Theory
Marvin E. Frankel
Chapter 4: The Adversary Judge: The Experience of the Trial Judge
The Adversary Performance
D. Brock Hornsby
Chapter 5: The Business of the U.S. District Courts
Alex Kozinski
Chapter 6: What I Ate for Breakfast and Other Mysteries of Judicial Decision Making
Stephen Reinhardt
Chapter 7: Whose Federal Judiciary Is It Anyway?
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Chapter 8: What Really Goes on at the Supreme Court
William H. Rehnquist
Chapter 9: The Supreme Court's Conference
John Paul Stevens
Chapter 10: Deciding What to Decide: The Docket and the Rule of Four
John M. Harlan II
Chapter 11: The Role of Oral Argument
William O. Douglas
Chapter 12: The Dissent: A Safeguard of Democracy
Legislative Process One of Compromise
Interpretation Has Legislative Characteristics
Stare Decisis Has Small Place in Constitutional Law
Uncertainty Necessary for Democracy
Judges Share Crises of Modern Society
Part III: The Judiciary and the Constitution
Joseph Story
Chapter 13: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
Chapter IV. Who Is Final Judge or Interpreter in Constitutional Controversies
Chapter V. Rules of Interpretation
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Chapter 14: The Path of Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Chapter 15: The Judge as a Legislator
William H. Rehnquist
Chapter 16: The Notion of a Living Constitution
William Wayne Justice
Chapter 17: A Relativistic Constitution
J. Clifford Wallace
Chapter 18: The Jurisprudence of Judicial Restraint: A Return to the Moorings
The Constitution and the Theory of Judicial Restraint
The Practical Application of Judicial Restraint
Judicial Restraint's Response to Judicial Activism
Robert H. Bork
Chapter 19: Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law
Richard A. Posner
Chapter 20: What Am I, a Potted Plant? The Case Against Strict Constructionism
Antonin Scalia
Chapter 21: Originalism: The Lesser Evil
Clarence Thomas
Chapter 22: Judging
Thurgood Marshall
Chapter 23: The Constitution: A Living Document
William J. Brennan Jr.
Chapter 24: The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification
John Paul Stevens
Chapter 25: Originalism and History
David H. Souter
Chapter 26: On Constitutional Interpretation
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Chapter 27: Speaking in a Judicial Voice: Reflections on Roe v. Wade
Stephen G. Breyer
Chapter 28: Our Democratic Constitution
Richard A. Posner
Chapter 29: Against Constitutional Theory
Part IV: Our Dual Constitutional System: The Bill of Rights and the States
Hugo L. Black
Chapter 30: The Bill of Rights
William J. Brennan Jr.
Chapter 31: Guardians of Our Liberties - State Courts No Less Than Federal
Hans A. Linde
Chapter 32: First Things First: Rediscovering the States' Bills of Rights
Putting Principle into Practice
Jeffrey S. Sutton
Chapter 33: What Does - and Does Not - Ail State Constitutional Law
The Content and Length of State Constitutions
The Ease of Amending State Constitutions
Judith S. Kaye
Chapter 34: State Courts at the Dawn of a New Century: Common Law Courts Reading Statutes and Constitutions
Common Law Courts Construing State Constitutions
Common Law Courts Construing State Statutes