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Title
Altered States: Review of John T. Noonan, Jr., 'Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 4-1-2003
Abstract
Conservative Ninth Circuit Judge John Noonan's book, 'Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States', lambasts the Supreme Court's federalism decisions, a hallmark of the Rehnquist Court's revival of the limits on national power originally envisioned by those who drafted and ratified the Constitution. This review takes Judge Noonan to task for misconstruing the original meaning of the Constitution's Commerce Clause, for example, but agrees with his assessment that the Court's 11th Amendment jurisprudence is a doctrinal mess.
Recommended Citation
John C. Eastman. "Altered States: Review of John T. Noonan, Jr., 'Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States'" Claremont Review of Books 3.2 (2003).
Copyright
The Claremont Institute
Comments
This article was originally published in the Claremont Review of Books, volume 3, issue 2, in 2003.