1. Powerful, irresponsible, and human

2. From the gleam in the founding fathers' eyes to the birth of supreme court power

3. Government by John Marshall, the great chief justice

4. Not states against nation but south against north as the court leans on to war

5. The court rides back to power on the nation's surge to the west

6. Associate justice Holmes, dissenting

7. The court collides with the new deal and wins the battle by defaulting the war

8. A court attuned to a liberal key develops its own discordance

9. Yesterday's court, the court today, and a court that could be tomorrow.