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| | Amazon.com: Books: A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The legal scholar Mark Tushnet has another, more nuanced spin on the court's ideological inconsistency: A Court Divided attributes the failure of the Rehnquist court to act as a monolithic counterweight to the excesses of the 1960s and '70s to the fact that the court's conservatives are far from monolithic in their own ideology. |
 | | The court, as he sees it, is essentially a moderate institution that -- with rare exceptions -- follows the policies and preferences of the elected branches of government and the electorate. |
 | | Whether, as Tushnet contends, the court is divided into old and new Republicans, into conservatives, liberals and swingers, into pragmatists and idealists, or into lovers of firm rules or squishy standards, the fact is that the Supreme Court is human, not divine. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393058689?v=glance (2633 words) |
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