Judges on Judging: Views from the Bench

Preface......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
Introduction......Page 29
1. The Doctrine of Judicial Review: Mr. Marshall, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Marbury......Page 36
2. The Supreme Court in the American System of Government......Page 55
Introduction......Page 67
3. The “Fight” Theory versus the “Truth” Theory......Page 103
4. The Adversary Judge: The Experience of the Trial Judge......Page 108
5. The Business of the U.S. District Courts......Page 120
6. What I Ate for Breakfast and Other Mysteries of Judicial Decision Making......Page 132
7. Whose Federal Judiciary Is It Anyway?......Page 138
8. What Really Goes On at the Supreme Court......Page 144
9. The Supreme Court’s Conference......Page 150
10. Deciding What to Decide: The Docket and the Rule of Four......Page 154
11. The Role of Oral Argument......Page 165
12. The Dissent: A Safeguard of Democracy......Page 169
Introduction......Page 179
13. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States......Page 191
14. The Path of Law......Page 201
15. The Judge as a Legislator......Page 209
16. The Notion of a Living Constitution......Page 213
17. A Relativistic Constitution......Page 225
18. The Jurisprudence of Judicial Restraint: A Return to the Moorings......Page 239
19. Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law......Page 253
20. What Am I, a Potted Plant? The Case against Strict Constructionism......Page 261
21. Originalism: The Lesser Evil......Page 266
22. Judging......Page 276
23. The Constitution: A Living Document......Page 284
24. The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification......Page 290
25. Originalism and History......Page 304
26. On Constitutional Interpretation......Page 309
27. Speaking in a Judicial Voice: Reflections on Roe v. Wade......Page 317
28. Our Democratic Constitution......Page 326
29. Against Constitutional Theory......Page 344
Introduction......Page 354
30. The Bill of Rights......Page 362
31. Guardians of Our Liberties—State Courts No Less Than Federal......Page 372
32. First Things First: Rediscovering the States’ Bills of Rights......Page 384
33. What Does—and Does Not—Ail State Constitutional Law......Page 396
34. State Courts at the Dawn of a New Century: Common Law Courts Reading Statutes and Constitutions......Page 414
Appendix A: Constitution of the United States, Article III......Page 424
Appendix B: The Federalist No. 78, Alexander Hamilton......Page 426
Appendix C: Selected Bibliography of Off-the-bench Commentaries......Page 433
Appendix D: Time Chart of Members of the Supreme Court of the United States......Page 478
About the Editor......Page 480