The Tempting of America

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Simon and Schuster, 2009. gada 24. nov. - 448 lappuses
Judge Bork shares a personal account of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination as well as his view on politics versus the law.

In The Tempting of America, one of our most distinguished legal minds offers a brilliant argument for the wisdom and necessity of interpreting the Constitution according to the “original understanding” of the Framers and the people for whom it was written.

Widely hailed as the most important critique of the nation’s intellectual climate since The Closing of the American Mind, The Tempting of America illuminates the history of the Supreme Court and the underlying meaning of constitutional controversy. Essential to understanding the relationship between values and the law, it concludes with a personal account of Judge Bork’s chillingly emblematic experiences during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on his Supreme Court nomination.

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THE SUPREME COURT
15
The New Deal Court and the Constitutional
51
The Political Role
69
The Restructuring of State
84
Poll Taxes and the New Equal Protection
90
The Burger and Rehnquist Courts
101
The Supreme Courts Trajectory
129
The Madisonian Dilemma and the Need
139
The Theorists of Conservative Constitutional
223
Of Moralism Moral Relativism
241
The Impossibility of All Theories that Depart
251
Good Results
261
THE BLOODY CROSSROADS
267
The Hearings and After
295
A Study
323
Why the Campaign Was Mounted
337

Objections to Original Understanding
161
The Theorists of Liberal Constitutional
187
Effects for the Future
345
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Robert Heron Bork was a judge, government official, and legal scholar who served as the Solicitor General of the United States.

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