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This text provides an in depth look into the relationship of society and the courts. The methodology adopted by judges when interpreting the Constitution, and the courts' consideration of basic social values are reviewed.

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Leedes attempts to fashion a theory of constitutional interpretation that would allow Supreme Court justices to decide cases in accord with society's reasonable expectations. The author upholds substantive due-process reasoning as a basis for invalidating bad legislation, but finds insupportable the court's ruling against abortion. The work reviews and rejects theories of judicial review by John H. Ely (Democracy and Distrust, CH, Sep '80), critics classified as radicals and skeptics, noninterpretivists, and interpretivists. In 115 pages, the work pieces together an extraordinary number of disjointed quotations and contains in its notes more than 1,000 references, some marked by editorial errors. Two chapters on the moral theories of 18th-century Scottish philosophers Francis Hutcheson and Thomas Reid are not satisfactorily related either to the ideas of the framers or to contemporary constitutional theory. This confused analysis does not add to important debate on constitutional interpretation, which has recently engaged public officials as well as scholars in law and political science.-H. Tolley Jr., University of Cincinnati