title: The Court and the Constitution
author:  Archibald Cox 
description: Cox, a Harvard law professor who was special prosecutor during Watergate, here presents a lucid, authoritative history of the Constitution's role in American life. The document has served well, he writes, because its framers said "enough but not too much," giving subsequent generations a continuity of principles that, nonetheless, could meet changing needs. Cox focuses on how the Supreme Court assumed and acted on the power to interpret the Constitution's often vague meaning throughout the stages of U.S. development. Once called upon primarily to settle constitutional issues involving the growth of a national economy, and later the rise of the welfare state, the Court since World War II has been the Constitution's "voice" in the protection of individual rights, he shows. General readers will appreciate Cox's ability to get to the heart of complex issues. BOMC and History Book Club selections. <br />Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Chapter II  
    
  Chapter III  
    
  Chapter IV  
    
  Chapter V  
    
  Chapter VI  
    
  Chapter VII  
    
  Chapter VIII  
    
  Chapter IX  
    
  Chapter X  
    
  Chapter XI  
    
  Chapter XII
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Coxon Fund
  
  
  ### Henry James
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "They've got him for life!" I said to myself that evening on my way
  
  
  back to the station; but later on, alone in the compartment (from
  
  
  Wimbledon to Waterloo, before the glory of the District Railway) I
  
  
  amended this declaration in the light of the sense that my friends
  
  
  would probably after all not enjoy a monopoly of Mr. Saltram. I
  
  
  won't pretend to have taken his vast measure on that first
  
  
  occasion, but I think I had achieved a glimpse of what the
  
  
  privilege of his acquaintance might mean for many persons in the
  
  
  way of charges accepted. He had been a great 