Reviews
"A graceful and compelling account of constitutional decision-making. Roosevelt shows how judges shape workable legal rules from constitutional meanings when reasonable minds can and do disagree. As learned as it is accessible, this book is a welcome antidote to today's overheated constitutional rhetoric."-Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School, "A graceful and compelling account of constitutional decision-making. Roosevelt shows how judges shape workable legal rules from constitutional meanings when reasonable minds can and do disagree. As learned as it is accessible, this book is a welcome antidote to today''s overheated constitutional rhetoric."�Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School, "Kermit Roosevelt has written a remarkably accessible, conversational book that sets out with admirable clarity what constitutes (and what is not) ''judicial activism'' and how we can accept as ''legitimate'' decisions with which we disagree. One can only hope that it gets the wide readership it deserves."-Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It), "A graceful and compelling account of constitutional decision-making. Roosevelt shows how judges shape workable legal rules from constitutional meanings when reasonable minds can and do disagree. As learned as it is accessible, this book is a welcome antidote to today''s overheated constitutional rhetoric."-Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School, "Kermit Roosevelt has written a remarkably accessible, conversational book that sets out with admirable clarity what constitutes (and what is not) ''judicial activism'' and how we can accept as ''legitimate'' decisions with which we disagree. One can only hope that it gets the wide readership it deserves."-Sanford Levinson, author ofOur Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It), "Kermit Roosevelt has written a remarkably accessible, conversational book that sets out with admirable clarity what constitutes (and what is not) ''judicial activism'' and how we can accept as ''legitimate'' decisions with which we disagree. One can only hope that it gets the wide readership it deserves."�Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It), "A graceful and compelling account of constitutional decision-making.Roosevelt shows how judges shape workable legal rules from constitutional meanings when reasonable minds can and do disagree. As learned as it is accessible, this book is a welcome antidote to today''s overheated constitutional rhetoric."-Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School, "Kermit Roosevelt has written a remarkably accessible, conversational book that sets out with admirable clarity what constitutes (and what is not) ''judicial activism'' and how we can accept as ''legitimate'' decisions with which we disagree. One can only hope that it gets the wide readership it deserves."-Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It), "Kermit Roosevelt has written a remarkably accessible, conversational book that sets out with admirable clarity what constitutes (and what is not) ''judicial activism'' and how we can accept as ''legitimate'' decisions with which we disagree. One can only hope that it gets the wide readership it deserves."--Sanford Levinson, author of "Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It)", "A graceful and compelling account of constitutional decision-making. Roosevelt shows how judges shape workable legal rules from constitutional meanings when reasonable minds can and do disagree. As learned as it is accessible, this book is a welcome antidote to today''s overheated constitutional rhetoric."-Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School, "Kermit Roosevelt has written a remarkably accessible, conversational book that sets out with admirable clarity what constitutes (and what is not) ''judicial activism'' and how we can accept as ''legitimate'' decisions with which we disagree.One can only hope that it gets the wide readership it deserves."-Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It), "A graceful and compelling account of constitutional decision-making. Roosevelt shows how judges shape workable legal rules from constitutional meanings when reasonable minds can and do disagree. As learned as it is accessible, this book is a welcome antidote to today's overheated constitutional rhetoric."-Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School, "A graceful and compelling account of constitutional decision-making. Roosevelt shows how judges shape workable legal rules from constitutional meanings when reasonable minds can and do disagree. As learned as it is accessible, this book is a welcome antidote to today''s overheated constitutional rhetoric."--Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School, "Kermit Roosevelt has written a remarkably accessible, conversational book that sets out with admirable clarity what constitutes (and what is not) 'judicial activism' and how we can accept as 'legitimate' decisions with which we disagree. One can only hope that it gets the wide readership it deserves."-Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It)
