Shaping Constitutional Values: Elected Government, the Supreme Court, and the Abortion Debate

Neal Devins takes an important look at the role of the Court and elected government through the filter of the abortion debate. For many years, legal academics have virtually ignored the very real impact that elected government has on the Court and vice versa. Devins follows a different path by looking at the progression of judicial review and the different eras of the Court, including FDR's court packing plan and the Court's tendency to be quite political when necessary. Devins is a Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary, where he has done important research on the issues associated with the interaction of the branches. Buy the book; the results might be very suprising to those that think the Supreme Court is totally independent from the other branches. Oh yeah...and buy the paperback version; it is a lot cheaper.