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The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom (repost)

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The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom (repost)

The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom By Robert Levy, William Mellor
Publisher: Cato Institute 2010 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1935308270 , 1595230505 | PDF | 2 MB

Cato Institute senior fellow Levy and lawyer Mellor, in this excellent examination of twelve far-reaching Supreme Court cases and their consequences, force readers to question the direction in which the judiciary has led our country over the past century-and possibly their own attitudes toward the federal government. The authors deftly navigate the complicated proceedings without slipping into lawyer-speak, while unapologetically leaning on their libertarian sentiments to color their commentary and analysis. Though the writers defend well their claim that the dozen cases under discussion-with a number of "dishonorable mentions" and an appendix each for Roe v. Wade and Bush v. Gore-have expanded the federal government and eroded civil liberties, one can't help but feel a creeping sense of arrogance when Levy and Mellor assert repeatedly that they know how the Constitution's authors would view the document were they alive today.