A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393327571)

In this authoritative reckoning with the eighteen-year record of the Rehnquist Court, Georgetown law professor Mark Tushnet reveals how the decisions of nine deeply divided justices have left the future of the Court; and the nation; hanging in the balance. Many have assumed that the chasm on the Court has been between its liberals and its conservatives. In reality, the division was between those in tune with the modern post-Reagan Republican Party and those who, though considered to be in the Court's center, represent an older Republican tradition. As a result, the Court has modestly promoted the agenda of today's economic conservatives, but has regularly defeated the agenda of social issues conservatives; while paving the way for more radically conservative path in the future.

Author: Mark Tushnet
ISBN-10: 0393327574
ISBN-13: 9780393327571
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.60w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 214