| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John E. Semonche. Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 1998. Pp. viii, 499. $39.95.

To survey the entire history of the Supreme Court in a single volume requires an ability to compress large-scale developments into treatments of modest length. John E. Semonche's successful performance of this task is made possible by his sound sense of proportion. The book is gracefully written for a wide audience, and it would serve admirably as the foundation text for a college survey course on the Supreme Court's history. A single theme, sounded in the book's title, runs throughout the book: that the Supreme Court is a primary keeper of a national constitutional faith that is central in binding a diverse population into a nation. Semonche deliberately plays on the term "faith," not merely analogizing the nation's constitutional values to religious faith but treating those values as a civil theology. The language of religion permeates the author's discussions of constitutional law and the justices who declare it. . . .

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