Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The "Happy Convention"
1. Who is to Decide?
2. Guns, Gays, and God-The Happy Convention and the Culture Wars
3. The Happy Convention Meets the War on Terror
4. The Catechism of the Happy Convention
5. The Rise of the Happy Convention
6. Life under the Happy Convention
7. Current Views-Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito and the Happy
Convention
8. The Happy Convention and the Grizzly Bear
9. Can Amending the Constitution End the Happy Convention?
Conclusion
Historical Appendix A: Stripper Statutes Limiting Court
Jurisdiction in the 1930s and 1940s
Historical Appendix B: World War II to 1996-Stripper Bills Seeking to Limit
Court Jurisdiction-None Passed
Historical Appendix C: Stripper Statutes Limiting Court Jurisdiction Since
1996
Historical Appendix D: Selected Supreme Court Rulings
Selected Bibliography
Index
