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The classic account of the American Supreme Court by the mid-twentieth century s most astute student of American constitutionalism updated by the early twenty-first century s most astute student of American constitutionalism. This is the first work constitutional beginners should and constitutional scholars do turn to. --Mark Graber, University of Maryland School of Law

Essential. . . . This fifth edition carries on the tradition of earlier iterations, keeping McCloskey's keen insights, analytical framework, and normative instincts intact . . . Levinson supplements the original argument with chapters . . . that draw on his remarkable intellectual range and invite readers to continue asking the still-salient questions McCloskey set forth a half-century earlier. --Mark Graber, University of Maryland School of Law Choice, on the fifth edition The classic account of the American Supreme Court by the mid-twentieth century's most astute student of American constitutionalism updated by the early twenty-first century's most astute student of American constitutionalism. This is the first work constitutional beginners should--and constitutional scholars do--turn to. --Mark Graber, University of Maryland School of Law

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Robert G. McCloskey (1919-1969) was professor of government at Harvard University. He is the author of American Conservatism in the Age of the Enterprise. Sanford Levinson is the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood Jr. Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, An Argument Open to All: Reading ""The Federalist"" in the 21st Century.

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