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Clint Bolick examines the assault on economic liberty brought about by the nineteenth- century "Slaughter-House" cases. He explains how those cases nullified the privileges (or immunities) clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and how the repercussions continue to manifest themselves today. Bolick offers hope for the future, however, as he describes the current campaign to restore economic liberty as a fundamental civil right.

Examines the importance of judicial nominations in current and future political campaigns - not just in campaigns for president but also for the senators who confirm the nominees and the governors who appoint state court judges. He offers his opinion of the framers' original intentions and provides both a historical perspective and a look at the courts' decisions on today's most contentious issues.

In Leviathan, renowned public interest attorney Bolick describes how the unchecked growth of local governments is eroding our nation's productive vitality and threatening us with "grassroots tyranny"--and ultimately reveals that, although the rules are often rigged in favor of local governments and against ordinary citizens, we can take action to rein in these bureaucracies.

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Describes how the unchecked growth of local governments is eroding America's productive vitality and threatening a "grassroots tyranny” - and ultimately reveals that, although the rules are often rigged in favour of local governments and against ordinary citizens, action can be taken to rein in these bureaucracies.

Judicial activism is condemned by both right and left, for good reason--lawless courts are a threat to republican government. But challenging conventional wisdom, constitutional litigator Clint Bolick argues in David's Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary that far worse is a judiciary that allows the other branches of government to run roughshod over precious liberties. For better or worse, only a vigorous judiciary can enforce the limit...

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In June 2002, the US Supreme Court's ruling in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris opened the door to school choice. In Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice, Clint Bolick recounts the dramatic twelve-year struggle to finally give families a choice in education. As the central figure in the legal battle over school choice, Bolick tells the story from the inside. As he and his colleagues triumphed in spite of the enormous power held by ...