Description: The Power Revolution is a sweeping study of constitutional erosion. Renowned legal scholar Philip Hamburger highlights the Supreme Court jurisprudence that has expanded federal authority at the expense of individual rights and calls for a dramatic restoration of the eighteenth-century natural law philosophy on which the Constitution is based.
Brief description: Philip Hamburger is Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and President of the New Civil Liberties Alliance. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of Separation of Church and State, Law and Judicial Duty, Is Administrative Law Unlawful? and Purchasing Submission.