In a few thousand words the Constitution sets up the government of
the United States and proclaims the basic human and political
rights of its people. From the interpretation and elaboration of
those words in over 500 volumes of Supreme Court cases comes the
constitutional law that structures our government and defines our
individual relationship to that government. This book fills the
need for an account of that law free from legal jargon and clear
enough to inform the educated layperson, yet which does not
condescend or slight critical nuance, so that its judgments and
analyses will engage students, practitioners, judges, and scholars.
Taking the reader up to and through such controversial recent
Supreme Court decisions as the Texas sodomy case and the University
of Michigan affirmative action case, Charles Fried sets out to make
sense of the main topics of constitutional law: the nature of
doctrine, federalism, separation of powers, freedom of expression,
religion, liberty, and equality.
Fried draws on his knowledge as a teacher and scholar, and on
his unique experience as a practitioner before the Supreme Court, a
former Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts, and Solicitor General of the United States to offer
an evenhanded account not only of the substance of constitutional
law, but of its texture and underlying themes. His book firmly
draws the reader into the heart of today's constitutional battles.
He understands what moves today's Court and that understanding
illuminates his analyses.
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