Publisher's Synopsis
Over more than two hundred years, the justices have changed ideological fronts more than once, sometimes radically. In their turn, present legal scholars have endeavored to fit these changes together into an ideological evolution, explained as progress, as what has been called a march of liberty. But another side of the cases forces a way upon the mind. Over this same history, the Court has repeatedly clashed with and overruled Congress; and the Court has as repeatedly re-interpreted so as to enlarge its
own powers. None of the expressed ideologies appear to account for these repeated occurrences, which occur so regularly as to suggest a steady course attracted by some other influence so far not explained. This book seeks to shed light on the driving force behind the Court's decisions.
