{"product_id":"supremacy-how-rule-by-the-court-replaced-government-by-the-people","title":"Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMany solid books have been published in recent years questioning the breadth of the power wielded by the U.S. Supreme Court. None is as meticulously researched, powerfully presented, and theoretically sound as this brilliant work by Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan, who offer not only irrefutable truth, but a way forward toward a reset of our constitutional order consistent with the highest democratic ideals of this country.--Sherrilyn Ifill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRiveting and revelatory, \n\u003cem\u003eSupremacy\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for anyone keen to know how the U.S. Supreme Court became so powerful. And Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan accomplish something else, too: a stirring account of how fiercely Americans have fought to determine, for themselves, the meaning of the U.S. Constitution.--Jill Lepore, author of These Truths and We the People\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBowie and Renan's brilliant analysis of our current constitutional malaise explains the source of the problem and offers persuasive solutions for how we must go about fixing it. This is essential reading for all who care about our country's future.--Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tToday, Americans take it as a fixed star of our constitutional system that the Supreme Court decides what the Constitution means. Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan's \n\u003cem\u003eSupremacy\u003c\/em\u003e supplies a rich corrective to that wrongly held assumption, detailing how the Supreme Court's position was forged through a combination of lucky breaks and historical contingencies that didn't have to shake out the way they did.--Leah Litman, author of Lawless\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoes the U.S. Constitution force us to live under the rule of nine robed lawyers? Many Americans assume that it does. It is commonly said that the Supreme Court has always had the power to decide what the Constitution means and to strike down any act of Congress that violates the justices' dictates. Even as the Court has used this power to upend democracy--erasing federal laws that once prevented presidential autocracy and protected the right to vote--we are told there is nothing everyday Americans can do, as if our ability to govern ourselves requires the Court to answer our most fundamental questions for us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut what if that isn't accurate? What if the Court was not given the power it now wields, but rather seized it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is the revelation of Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan's masterful new account of the Supreme Court. In a sweeping narrative of over 200 years of American history, they demonstrate that \"judicial supremacy\" was not written into the Constitution and has always been challenged as fundamentally at odds with it. Far from being an eternal principle, the power the Court claims to override Congress's interpretation of the Constitution took hold in reaction to abolition and Reconstruction--not to protect democracy, but to weaken it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eSupremacy\u003c\/em\u003e charts how the Court has repeatedly sabotaged the efforts of Congress to broaden democracy by enabling presidents, corporations, and the wealthy to ignore enacted law. It also challenges how even liberals understand the Court's most celebrated rulings--including \u003cem\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRoe v. Wade\u003c\/em\u003e--showing how the left has unwittingly subscribed to the very ideology that now threatens it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt every step, Bowie and Renan recover a lost constitutional tradition, one forged by abolitionists, labor leaders, suffragists, and civil rights pioneers. These individuals presented another way forward, in which power is returned to where the Constitution put it--Congress--and everyday Americans have more of a say in the law that shapes our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eBowie, Nikolas\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNikolas Bowie\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He was a clerk for Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eRenan, Daphna\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDaphna Renan\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Peter B. Munroe and Mary J. Munroe Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She was a clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"W. W. 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