DISSENT AND THE SUPREME COURT: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue

Urofsky demonstrates how the power of dissent grew slowly but steadily, beginning with the infamous and now overturned case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) and culminating in the present age of incivility, in which reasoned dialogue seems increasingly less possible. Dissent, Urofky argues, is crucial to keeping the Constitution alive. Illus.