A brief note on The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom.
I really had high expectations for this book, written as it was by a dream team of Cato (Robert A. Levy) and Institute for Justice (Wiliam H. Mellor) authors. Add in a forward by Richard A. Epstein, and this book should be great.
The basic format is to take 12 issues, and for each one to examine the relevant Supreme Court decisions, asking for each one:
- What is the Constitutional issue?
- What were the facts?
- Where did the Court go wrong?
- What are the implications?
The general theme is to show how things went off the rails, how a particular Supreme Court decision, as the title suggests, “radically expanded government” or “eroded freedom.”
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