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The massive cover book review praises Justice Antonin Scalia for changing the course of American jurisprudence from "common-law constitutionalism" to "originalism," then blasts him for betraying his own principles: Scalia has abandoned neutrality and now decides cases based on his own political views.
A few of these students befriend their senators, or find some other way to become federal judges; by that time, they have internalized what Scalia calls the "common-law attitude," and they become a dangerous lot.
But even then common-law unions were valid.
He justifiably laments the virtual disregard of statutory interpretation in law-school curricula, where the hoary common-law case-study method still predominates despite the fact that most law nowadays takes the form of statutes and regulations.
The specter raised by common-law judging, Scalia says, is not the unelected judge determined to impose the values of an elite few upon the masses, but that old Tocquevillian villain, the tyranny of the majority.