{"product_id":"scalias-court-a-legacy-of-landmark-opinions-and-dissents-9781621575221","title":"Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kevin A. Ring\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Regnery Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Regnery Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American Government - Judicial Branch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Inside Flap\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrescient. Principled. Profound.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThose words epitomized Justice Antonin Scalia, for nearly thirty years the most brilliant and controversial member of the Supreme Court and one of the liveliest writers in its history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMatched with Scalia's brilliance was a rare judicial humility--the conviction that the law should not be based on any judge's whim or preference but on the original intent of the Constitution's Framers. In many of his dissents, he sounded the alarm against judicial activism, relentlessly defending the rights reserved by the Constitution to the people and their states. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eScalia's Court\u003c\/i\u003e, Kevin Ring has assembled the great jurist's best and most powerful opinions, showcasing the quotable justice's take on issues of enduring importance, including contentious constitutional debates that continue today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere's Scalia on: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \"Living\" Constitution\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I defend a dead Constitution.\" \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSame-Sex Marriage\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.\" \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAffirmative Action\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eObamacare\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms of our laws, not by the unenacted will of our lawmakers.\" \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReligious Freedom\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A priest has as much liberty to proselytize as a patriot.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbortion\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"It thus appears the mansion of constitutionalized abortion law, constructed overnight in \u003c\/i\u003eRoe v. Wade\u003ci\u003e, must be disassembled doorjamb by doorjamb...\" \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJudicial Activism\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"No government official is 'tempted' to place restraints on his own freedom of action, which is why Lord Acton did not say 'Power tends to purify.'\" \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJurists like Scalia come only once in a generation, if that; and their absence from the Court, especially in times like these, can leave a dangerous, ominous vacancy. \u003ci\u003eScalia's Court \u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect way to remember his legacy as a constitutional patriot--and may be the best handbook for protecting our future.","brand":"Regnery Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45356210028695,"sku":"9781621575221","price":1935.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781621575221.webp?v=1767671699","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/scalias-court-a-legacy-of-landmark-opinions-and-dissents-9781621575221","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}