Conservatives Without Conscience

77.

Joe Queenan, “Bookshelf: New World Order Nut,” Wall Street Journal (December 31, 1991), A-5.

78.

Pat Robertson, Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Is Usurping the Power of Congress and the People (Nashville: Integrity Publishers, 2004), 236–37.

79.

Adam Nagourney, Richard W. Stevenson, and Neil A. Lewis, “Glum Democrats Can’t See Halting Bush on Courts,” New York Times (January 15, 2006), A-1.

80.

Robertson, Courting Disaster, 258.

81.

Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey, “Who holds these truths?,” Christianity Today (October 6, 1997), 144.

82.

For example, Mark Noll mentions Colson’s works when exploring the question “Is an Evangelical Intellectual Renaissance Underway,” in Mark A. Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1994), 223.

83.

Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 147 (1803).

84.

See David E. Engdahl, “John Marshall’s ‘Jeffersonian’ Concept of Judicial Review,” Duke Law Journal (November 1992), 279, 284–89.

85.

Ibid. Professor Engdahl’s examination of often neglected data is the basis for the summary I have provided of pre-Marbury practices regarding judicial review.

86.

See Michael Stokes Paulsen, “The Most Dangerous Branch: Executive Power to Say What the Law Is,” Georgetown Law Journal (December 1994), 217, 259 n.159. Professor Paulsen argued that presidents do have the power to interpret the law.

87.

Lincoln historian Philip S. Paludan wrote, “Although clear evidence is lacking, it would not be surprising if Lincoln had put him up to it, for the president continued to believe that border-state challenges to slavery would deal a heavy blow to the rebellion.” Phillip Shaw Paludan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln at http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/content_inside.asp?ID=56&subjectID=3.

Chapter 4: Troubling Politics and Policies

1.

Raymond Hernandez, “At King Event, Mrs. Clinton Denounces G.O.P. Leadership,” New York Times (January 18, 2006), A-1.

2.

David Maraniss and Michael Weisskopf, Tell Newt to Shut Up! (New York: Touchstone, 1996), 5.

3.

David Osborne, “Newt Gingrich: Shining King of the Post-Reagan Right,” Mother Jones (November 1, 1984) at http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1984/11/osborne.html.

4.

Donald T. Critchlow, “When Republicans Become Revolutionaries.” In Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The American Congress (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 717.

5.

Osborne, “Newt Gingrich: Shining King of the Post-Reagan Right.”

6.

Critchlow, “When Republicans Become Revolutionaries.”

7.

Dan T. Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963–1994 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996), 119.

8.