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103 Harv. L. Rev. 43 (1989-1990)
Foreword: The Vanishing Constitution

handle is hein.journals/hlr103 and id is 61 raw text is: THE SUPREME COURT 1988 TERM FOREWORD: THE VANISHING CONSTITUTION Erwin Chemerinsky TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE I. IN SEARCH OF THE REHNQUIST COURT'S JURISPRUDENCE ..................... 47 A. What Animates the Rehnquist Court? ................................... 48 B. The Absence of a Consistent Interpretive Theory .......................... 51 C. The Default to Deference .............................................. 56 D. The Quest for Judicial Neutrality ....................................... 59 11. HOW A MAJORITARIAN PARADIGM CAME To DOMINATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 6I A. The Cycles of Rhetoric and Politics ..................................... 6i B. Constitutional Jurisprudence ........................................... 64 x. H istory ........................................................... 64 2. Contemporary Constitutional Theory .................................. 70 C. Constitutional Doctrines ............................................... 73 III. THE INFIRMITIES OF THE MAJORITARIAN PARADIGM ......................... 74 A. The False Priority of Majoritarianism ................................... 74 B. Allocating Authority Among the Branches ................................ 77 I. The Three Branches of Democracy ................................... 77 2. The Benefits of Judicial Review ..................................... 83 C. The Rhetorical Dysfunction of the Majoritarian Paradigm ................. 87 I. Allocating Decisionmaking Authority ................................. 87 2. Making Value Judgments ............................................ 89 D. A Vanishing Constitution? ............................................. 96 IV. TOWARD A NEW PARADIGM ................................................ 98 V. CONCLUSION: TALKING ABOUT THE REHNQUIST COURT ....................... 103

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