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Political scientist Richard Brisbin explores the foundation and elaboration of the justice's conservative political vision.
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- A Theory of Liberty: The Constitution and Minorities (After the Law) by Harry N. Hirsch on 5 pages
- The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics by Alexander M. Bickel in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value by Edward A. Purcell Jr. in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- On Reading the Constitution by Laurence H. Tribe in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Law's Violence (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) by Austin Sarat in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Law Clerks, Support Personnel, and the Decline of Consensual Norms on the United States Supreme Court (American Legal Institutions) by Bradley J. Best on page 119, and Back Matter
- The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 2: From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples" (New Forum Books) by James Hitchcock in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice by Kevin A. Ring in Back Matter
- Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning (Rhetorical Philosophy & Theory) by Edward Schiappa PhD in Back Matter
- Originalism in American Law and Politics: A Constitutional History (The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought) by Johnathan O'Neill in Back Matter
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