The authors relate current arguments to traditional ideas of republicanism and democracy and compare them with the Revolution, Civil War, and civil rights and suffrage movements.

"The Supreme Court Economic Review" series applies economic and legal scholarship to the work of the United States Supreme Court. Contributions provide economic analyses of events that generate the Court's cases, its organizational functioning, its rationale, and the societal impact of these verdicts.

This interdisciplinary review series provides an economic analysis of the situations and events that generate a case or group of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court, the implicit or explicit economic reasoning employed by the Court to reach its decisions, and the economic consequences of the Court's decisions.