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If you're looking for Constitutional Law that's unbiased... you're looking at the wrong book. While Levin has a very good, and very important point, the Supreme Court has usurped power from the Executive and Legislative, his book is incredibly biased. Apparently the court has only ever used its ill gotten powers in the service of liberal causes. I understand that Levin is a conservative, and so feels the sting of judicial indiscretion all the more when it comes from a liberal viewpoint, but he falls victim to exactly what he is arguing against. Judicial tyranny is a matter of process, not results. It does not matter if the outcome of judicial activism is positive or negative, good or evil, what matters is that it is based on the Judges' beliefs and not the Constitution. The same is true of arguments. Whether I agree or disagree with Levin's point is immaterial to my feelings on the way he presents it. Unfortunately Levin makes what should be a non-controversial claim into a partisan political issue. As if this were not enough he makes very dubious use of bracketing and ellipsis in his quotations. In almost every quotation some word is replaced or some section is left out. While this may be entirely innocent, it leaves me feeling highly suspect about the content of the quotation. However, the Appendix at the end of the book, containing memos amongst democrat senators is very interesting, and almost worth the cost of the book.