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by Robert H. Bork


  84. See “U.S. Military Aid Tied to Court Immunity” (Aug 14, 2002), at Cable News Network, http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/14/aid.criminalcourts/.

  85. See, e.g., “Human Rights Watch, EU Commitment to Criminal Court Facing Test” (Aug. 28, 2002) at Human Rights Watch, http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/08/article98-0828.htm.

  86. Declaration of Independence, par. 2.

  Index

  Abington School District v. Schempp, xvn9, 89, 94–96, 98

  abortion, xiv, xxx, 20–22, 48, 50, 76, 135;

  restrictions on, 38;

  Warren Court and, 33

  activist decisions, 35

  Adamson v. California, 62n18

  Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, 67n38, 79n98

  aggression, 173

  Agostini v. Felton, 100

  Aguilar v. Felton, 99–100

  aid, to religious schools, 23, 28

  Albright, Madeline, 172

  Albright v. Oliver, 81n101

  Alden v. Maine, 36n88

  Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), xxxv;

  first invoked, 160;

  forgotten statute of, 160–62;

  introduction, 159–60

  Allende, Salvador, 153

  Allgeyer v. Louisiana, 66n34

  amendment process, 50–51

  American citizenry, xii;

  legitimacy of, xiv, xix

  American Civil Liberties Union, xvi, 27

  American Communist Party, 30

  American flag, burning of, 29;

  desecration of, xxvi

  Amish, 106

  anticontraception law, 20, 28

  anti-intellectualism, xxv

  antinationalists, 5

  Arbour, Louise, 180n81

  Argentine Republic v. Amerada Hess Shipping Corp., 163

  arms control, 121

  Articles of Confederation, 12

  ATCA. See Alien Tort Claims Act

  Atkins v. Virginia, 34n80

  Axworthy, Lloyd, 120–21, 123

  Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., 25n51

  Baldwin v. Missouri, 80n99

  Barron v. Baltimore, 68n42, 78n87

  Bassiouni, Cherif, on universal jurisdiction, 137–38

  Belgian weltmacht, 156–59

  Belgium, universal jurisdiction in, 156–59

  Benton v. Maryland, 17n34

  Bible, xv, 12, 94

  Bill of Rights, xviii, 10n16, 13, 18–19, 70, 93, 115;

  Fourteenth Amendment and, 68;

  guarantees of, 71n56

  birth control, 70–71, 135

  Black, Galen, 106

  Black, Hugo, 16, 27, 30, 62n18, 69, 75–76, 88–89, 92–93, 98, 103

  Blackmun, Harry A., xviii, xix, 24, 41;

  on family rights, xvii

  blame, shame, name, 125

  Blatchford, Samuel, 62

  blue laws, 102

  BMW of North America v. Gore, 81n101

  Board of County Commissioners, Wabaunsee County, Kansas v. Umbehr, xin3

  Board of Education v. Allen, 97–98

  Bork, Robert H., 52, 162–63, 165–66

  Bourquin, Maurice, 116

  Bowers v. Hardwick, xvii, 72n58, 73–74, 80, 83

  Brandeis, Louis, xiii, 60–63

  Brecht, Bertolt, xiv–xv

  Brennan, William J., Jr., 3, 24, 27, 33n73, 41, 71n56, 94

  Breyer, Stephen, 35

  Brown v. Allen, 20, 28n56, 41–42;

  nondiscrimination principle of, 43–44

  Brown v. Board of Education, xn1, 22–23, 22n43, 26–27

  Brutus, on independence of judges, 5–6

  Buckley, William, F., Jr., 4

  Burger Court, 32–34, 37

  Burger, Warren Earl, 27, 103;

  desegregation and, 44

  Burke, Edmund, 25

  Bush, George, H. W., 99, 127, 158

  Bush, George W., 123, 136, 174;

  Supreme Court appointments of, 51

  Bush v. Gore, 35

  busing, 45, 48;

  costs of, 48n117

  Calder v. Bull, 63n20, 77

  Caminetti v. United States, 37n93

  Cantwell v. Connecticut, 85–86, 105

  capital punishment, 38, 41;

  Rehnquist Court and, 34;

  Supreme Court and, 24

  Cardozo, Benjamin, 68

  Carolene Products Co. v. United States, 16, 68

  Casey, Lee A., xxxiii–xxxv

  CCW. See Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

  Chase, Samuel, 7, 63n20, 77

  Cheney, Dick, 158

  Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Co. v. Minnesota, 62n18, 66

  choice of law issues, 164

  Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah, 107–8

  Churchill, Winston, 53, 144

  church-related schools, public aid to, 97–102

  City of Boerne v. Flores, 33n73, 107

  City of Indianapolis v. Edmond, 34n78

  Civil Rights Act (1875), 25

  Civil Rights Act (1964), xxiv, 25–26;

  opponents of, 42;

  Title IV, 45;

  Title VI, 41, 44, 46;

  Title VII, 46, 46n112

  Civil War Amendments, 13

  Clark, Tom, 94

  Clark, Wesley, 172

  Clinton, William Jefferson, 99, 123, 128–29, 136, 174;

  Supreme Court appointments of, 51

  Coalition for the International Criminal Court, 122

  Cohen v. California, xxviii, 29n57

  Cold War, 30, 113, 133

  Collins v. Collins, 24n47

  Colorado Constitution, 34

  Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (Story), xxi, 78

  Commission on Global Governance, 127

  common law system, 82

  Communism, xxiii, 30

  complementarity, 176

  Conference on Disarmament, 121

  Conference on Environment and Development (1992), 124

  conservative activism, 36

  conservatives, 33;

  identified in Supreme Court, 35

  constitutional adjucation, 76

  constitutional amendments, 50–51

  constitutional federalism, 37n93

  constitutional history, 76–77

  constitutional judicial review, meaning of, 14;

  origin of, 5–8

  constitutional language, 15;

  liberty and, 63

  constitutional law, xii, 75;

  contending forces in, xxix;

  defined, 2;

  derelicts of, 82;

  homogenization of, xxxv;

  irrelevance of U.S. Constitution to, 11–24;

  point of, 33;

  as series of political impulses, xxv;

  as similar to international law, xxxi;

  social policy choices and, 27–28;

  U.S. Constitution overthrown by, 2–5;

  values v., ix

  constitutional revolution, of 1937, 15–16

  constitutional self-government, 59, 80;

  erosion of, 82

  constitutionalism, 6;

  justification for, 9;

  meaning of, 8

  constructive ingenuity, 59

  Contracts Clause, 10n18

  Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 121

  Cooper v. Aaron, 47n114

  County of Allegheny v. ACLU, 103–4

  court-packing plan, 15

  courts, deconstruction by, x;

  as ultimate law-givers, xii

  Cox v. Louisiana, 29n59

  Craig v. Boren, 15n27

  crimes, against humanity, 173;

  against peace, 145

  cultural elite, 3–4;

  judicial review and, 38–47;

  speaking and, 40

  culture war, xxvi, 3, 38

  Curtis, Benjamin, 79

  Curtis Publishing v. Butts, 30n63

  Danbury Baptists, 89

&nbs
p; Davenport, David, xxxii–xxxiv

  Davey, Joshua, 108–9

  Davidson v. New Orleans, 14n25

  Day v. Trans World Airlines, 169n66

  death penalty, international law and, 130

  Declaration of Independence, 115

  Demjanjuk v. Petrovsky, 143n11, 152n32

  democracy, fragility of, 48;

  theory of, 39

  democratic federalism, 38

  Democratic Republic of the Congo, 157

  Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Belgium, 147

  Denver Area Educ. Telecomm. Consortium, Inc. v. FCC, 29n57, 34n80

  deprivation of property, without due process, 66

  Derbyshire, John, on judicial elites, x

  derelicts of constitutional law, 82

  desegregation, 43–45

  Devlin, Patrick, xix

  Dickerson v. United States, 34n77, 35n83

  Dirty War (Argentina), 153–54

  discrimination, racial, 26, 30, 42;

  sex, xxiii, 30, 33, 34;

  viewpoint, 108;

  in work place, 46, 46n112

  Doe v. Bolton, 75n75

  Doe v. Unocal Corp., 162n50

  Dolan v. City of Tigard, 36n86

  domestic tort law, 164

  Douglas, William O., xiii, 16, 18–19, 27, 30, 71n56, 75, 89, 92;

  substantive due process and, 70

  Dred Scott v. Sandford, 21, 24–26, 79, 82;

  substantive due process and, 65

  Drug Enforcement Administration, 166

  due process, 14–15, 53;

  boundaries of, 72–73;

  deprivation of property without, 66;

  natural law and, 62n18;

  personal rights v. property rights and, 69;

  Scalia and, 81;

  technical meaning of, 64–65. See also substantive due process

  Duncan v. Louisiana, 17n30

  Eakin v. Raub, 8n11

  Eastland, Terry, xv, xvi, xxii

  Edwards, Harry, 161–62, 164–65

  Eichmann, Adolph, xxxiv;

  trial of, 149–53

  Eisenstadt v. Baird, 71n56

  Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Title I, 99–100

  Elfbrandt v. Russell, 30n62

  elites, ix–x;

  Supreme Court justices as, 4

  Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, 104, 109

  Employment Division v. Smith, 33n73, 106–7

  enemies, of all mankind, 138–42

  Engel v. Vitale, 17n32, 92–94, 96

  Equal Access Act, 97

  equal protection, 53

  Equal Rights Amendment, 30, 31

  equality, xii–xiii

  Erie R. Co. V. Tompkins, 168

  Ervin, Sam, on desegregation, 45

  EU. See European Union

  European Convention on Human Rights, 130

  European model, xv

  European project, 180–83

  European Union (EU), xxxv, 114, 120, 127;

  priority of, 181

  Everson, Arch, 88, 91

  Everson v. Board of Education, 87, 89–91, 97, 102

  evolutionism, xxix–xxx

  extradition, 154

  Falklands War (1982), 163

  family, sacredness of, xxvi;

  value of, xvii

  federal common law, 161, 168

  Federal Maritime Comm’n v. South Carolina Ports Auth., 36n88

  Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 166

  federalism, 12

  The Federalist, 73

  Ferguson v. Skrupa, 16n28, 69–70

  Fifteenth Amendment, 13–14, 54

  Fifth Amendment, 18, 36, 71n56;

  due process clause of, 23, 58, 64

  Filartiga v. Pena, 160–65

  Final Solution, 149

  First Amendment, xiii, xv, xxx, 17, 23, 30, 61, 67, 71n56, 85, 87–89, 93;

  accommodationist view of, 92;

  establishment clause of, 86, 94, 98, 104, 109–10;

  free exercise clause of, 86, 94, 107, 109–10;

  free speech clause of, 108;

  religion clauses of, 23;

  religion treatment in, 86;

  as Supreme Court weapon, 29

  First Congress (1789), 90, 93, 167

  First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles, 36n86

  flag-salute ceremony, 87

  Fletcher v. Peck, 63n21

  Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Educ. Expense Bd. v. Coll. Sav Bank, 36n88

  force, 6

  Ford, Gerald R., 49

  foreign languages prohibition, 67

  Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA), 159;

  exception to, 163

  Fourteenth Amendment, xviii, xxi, 9, 13–14, 23, 31, 36, 53–55, 65, 67, 68n42, 70, 72, 75, 80, 85;

  Bill of Rights and, 68;

  due process clause of, 17, 21, 58, 62, 68;

  equal protection clause of, xxiv, 19, 23;

  judicial review and, 54;

  privileges/immunities clause of, 14

  Fourth Amendment, xxix–xxx, 71n56

  Frankfurter, Felix, 92;

  on U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court, 10n17

  Franks, Tommy, 158

  freedom, matrix of, 68

  French Court of Cassation, 157

  Frontiero v. Richardson, 31n65

  FSIA. See Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976

  FTCA. See Federal Tort Claims Act

  functional judicial review, 16

  Furman v. Georgia, 28n54

  Garzon, Balthazar, 153–54

  Geneva Conventions, 155, 172

  genocide, 155, 171, 173

  Genocide Convention, 155

  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 31, 35, 41

  Gitlow v. New York, 67n39, 68n42

  global governance, 124, 127, 133

  global security, 133

  global warming, price-tag on preventing, 129

  globalists, xxxiv, 125;

  treaty-based agenda of, 134

  Gobitis, Walter, 87

  Goering, Hermann, 144

  Goldberg, Arthur, 27

  Good News Club v. Milford Central School, 108n39

  Graglia, Lino A., xiii, xv

  Graham v. Richardson, 15n27, 31n68

  Grand Council of Ayatollah, Supreme Court compared to, 3

  Green v. County School Board, 42–43, 52

  Gregg v. Georgia, 24n47

  Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 46

  Griswold v. Connecticut, xiiin5, 18, 20, 23–24, 28, 41n96, 60n11, 67, 69–71, 73–75

  group identity, x

  Grutter v. Bollinger, 4n3, 35n82, 36, 41n98;

  compared to United States v. Virginia, xxiii–xxiv

  Hague Convention, 146n17

  Hall, Kermit, 99

  Hamburger, Philip, 91

  Hamilton, Alexander, 6, 8, 10, 25, 27, 47–48, 64, 73

  Hammer V. Dagenhart, 25n51

  Hand, Learned, 39

  Harlan, John Marshall, on due process, 69

  Hedges, Charles, 139

  Heydrich, Reinhard, 149

  Himmelfarb, Gertrude, xxvi

  Himmler, Heinrich, 149

  Hitler, Adolph, 143–44

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 79–80

  Holocaust survivors, 29

  Home Building and Loan Ass’n v. Blaisdell, 10n18

  homosexuality, xxi, xxx, 34–35, 58, 73, 76

  House of Lords, 154–55, 157

  Hughes, Charles Evans, 47;

  on due process, 67n41

  Human Rights Commission, 127

  human security, national security v., xxxiii

  Humphrey, Hubert, 44–45

  Hussein, Saddam, 137, 172

  ICC prosecutors, 179–80

  ICC. See International Criminal Court

  ICJ. See International Court of Justice

  Ikle, Fred, xxxin31

  ILC. See International Law Commission

  ill humor
s, 9–10

  immunity, 147–49;

  rule of, 157–58

  impeachment, 7;

  of Supreme Court justices, 48–49

  Imperial Judiciary, 76

  impunity, 182

  IMT. See International Military Tribunal

  infringement, of ambassadorial rights, 165, 167

  integration, 42–44

  International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, 121

  International Committee of the Red Cross, 121

  international community, 175

  International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 1984 (Torture Convention), 154

  International Court of Justice (ICJ), xxxiii, 147;

  universal jurisdiction and, 157

  International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 167

  International Criminal Court (ICC), xxxii, xxxv, 114;

  authority of, 176;

  creation of, 173–74;

  jurisdiction of, 136, 173, 176n74;

  prosecutors, 179–80;

  role of, 136;

  U.S. and, 182

  International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 180n81

  International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 180n81

  international diplomacy, 113

  international law, American interpretation of, 169;

  American values/interests challenged by, 128–33;

  as crystallization of international politics, 116;

  as customary law, 159;

  death penalty and, 130;

  discontents and, 115–17;

  expansion in, xxxii–xxxiii, 114;

  movement away from U.N., 131;

  ordinary rule of, 142;

  as similar to constitutional law, xxxi;

  threat to U.S. sovereignty, 132;

  three-way expansion of, 124–28;

  top-down nature of, 115–16;

  U.S. law v., 115–17

  International Law Commission (ILC), 122

  International Military Tribunal (IMT), xxxiv, 143;

  Article 6, 145;

  Article 7, 145

  international prosecutors, 179

  international tribunals, xxxi

  Internet, pornography and, 34

  interstate transportation, 68

  Iraq war, 156

  Iredell, James, 77

  Israeli Supreme Court, 150, 154

  Jackson, Andrew, on judges, 7n8

  Jackson, Robert, 20, 88, 92;

  on federal prosecutors, 177–78

  Japan, war crimes and, 148

  Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 148n25

  Jaworski, Leon, 46

  Jefferson, Thomas, 7–8, 88, 90–91;

  on judges, 7n8

  Jehovah’s Witnesses, 87

  JOUAM. See Junior Order of United American Mechanics

  judge-made law, 83

  judges, as dangerous, 12;

  independence of, 5–6;

  protection from, 7;

  role of, ix

 

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