The Cloaking of Power
Subtitle: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: June 1, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780226094823
First sentence: Montesquieu introduces The Spirit of the Laws as propounding "new ideas" of man and politics, and as "the work of twenty years" of reflection upon an "infinite number of things" ("Notice," 227; "Preface," 229).
Description: 'The Cloaking of Power' provides a provocative and original analysis of the intellectual sources of today's powerful judiciary.