- Introduction: White Bosses
- I. Judicial Authority in Principle
- 1. The Constitutional Question
- 2. Madison’s Institutional Answer
- 3. Lincoln’s Egalitarian Answer
- II. Judicial Supremacy in Practice
- 4. The Marshall Court Conflicts
- 5. The Black Race within Our Bosom, the Red on Our Borders
- 6. The Civil War Rules
- 7. Reconstructing the Constitution
- III. Equal Authority in Principle and Practice
- 8. An Egalitarian Response: Brown v. Board of Education
- 9. Atavistic Reaction: The Nixon Tapes, the Death Penalty, and Abortion
- 10. A Constitutional Resolution
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Acknowledgments
- Index


The Constitution in Conflict
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Publication Date: 03/19/1995