The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution.

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The Will of the People

By Barry Friedman

In The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution, Barry Friedman argues that, in practice, the Supreme Court has always been subject to a higher power: the American public. Judicial positions have been abolished; the justices' jurisdiction has been stripped; the Court has been packed; and unpopular rulings have been defied.

Friedman's account of the...