A Country I Do Not Recognize The Legal Assault on American Values

by Bork, Robert H.

• ISBN13: 9780817946029
• ISBN10: 0817946020
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-01
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Summary

During the past forty years, activists have repeatedly used the court system to achieve social and political change. On both the domestic and international fronts, they have accomplished substantive policy results that could not otherwise be obtained through the ordinary political processes of government both in the United States and abroad. In five insightful essays, the contributors to this volume show how these legal decisions have seriously undermined America's sovereignty and values.

Author Biography

Robert H. Bork served as solicitor general, acting attorney general of the United States, and a United States Court of Appeals judge. He was also a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute and the Tad and Dianne Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was a partner in a major law firm and taught constitutional law at Yale Law School, and is the author of the best-selling The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Introduction	ix
Robert H. Bork
Constitutional Law without the Constitution: The Supreme Court's Remaking of America	1	(56)
Lino A. Graglia
The Perverse Paradox of Privacy	57	(28)
Gary L. McDowell
A Court Tilting against Religious Liberty	85	(28)
Terry Eastland
The New Diplomacy Threatens American Sovereignty and Values	113	(22)
David Davenport
The Dangerous Myth of Universal Jurisdiction	135	(50)
Lee A. Casey
David B. Rivkin Jr.
Index	185