Context Of Judicial Activism

In this book, Frederick P. Lewis examines the legacy of the Warren Court, analyzing why the court's activism survived largely intact despite the efforts of four Republican presidents over a 20-year period to replace activist federal judges with jurists committed to judicial restraint. Lewis persuasively argues that the doctrinal innovations of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s were the product of fundamental changes in American society, changes which Reagan and the other conservative presidents had n…