Judging the Constitution: Critical Essays on Judicial Lawmaking. By Michael W. McCann and Gerald L. Houseman

Erwin Chemerinsky

doi:10.1080/00028533.1990.11951495

Chemerinsky, Erwin

1990-03-01 00:00:00

SPRING 1990 Unfortunately, the weaknesses of this cepts. Nonetheless, for several reasons, book outweigh its strengths. Beginning Professors McCann and Houseman have debaters will need much more than this arranged a unique group of articles that manual to find their way in the hostile enrich the literature about constitutional world of competitive non-policy debate. law. First, the book is ambitious in scope. THOMAS E. jEWELL The initial chapters address contemporary University of New Mexico constitutional theory. An essay by Lief Carter and John Gillian examines trends in contemporary constitutional philoso judging the Constitution: Critical Essays phy, tracing shifts in constitutional juris on judicial Lawmaking. By Michael W. prudence through American history. Spe McCann and Gerald L. Houseman. cifically, Carter and Gill ion suggest that Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman/Little there has been a shift away from founda Brown Series in Political Science, 1989; tional theories, such as natural rights pp. xii + 441. philosophy, toward a view of constitutional Throughout American history, and espe law as a social dialogue. Such discourse cially for the past decade, a debate has theories of constitutional law are now very raged over the proper method of constitu popular and they should be of great

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