Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Part I. An Objective Legal System: 2. Objectivity - getting reality right; 3. Objectivity in a legal system - three cornerstones; 4. The moral imperative of the rule of law; 5. The moral authority beneath the law; 6. A written constitution - bedrock legal authority; Part II. Implications for Judicial Review: 7. Judicial review - the reigning accounts' failure; 8. Objective judicial review - understanding the law in context; 9. Proper review in contemporary conditions; Conclusion.

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This book grounds judicial review in its deepest foundations: the function, authority, and objectivity of a legal system as a whole.

About the Author

Tara Smith is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Moral Rights and Political Freedom, Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality and Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist. Her writings have been translated into several languages including Chinese, Japanese and Hebrew.