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The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-FEB-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom.(Book review)

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The Dirty Dozen

Robert A. Levy and William Mellor Sentinel

www.penguin.com

320 pp., $25.95

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We live in an era of partisan politics. It is almost impossible to find objective and independent analysis. The media recognize that conflict delivers viewers and readers, so partisan views and loud voices push reason and restraint into the background.

One would hope that in the legal arena, scholarship would compel objective and fair-minded analysis. Sadly, that is not the case. In The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom, authors Robert Levy and William Mellor proudly proclaim their partisan philosophical views at the outset. They favor limited government and strict constitutional limitations on Congress's power. The result is a book defined by a...

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