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Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution. By Ronald Dworkin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. 347. $35.00.)

Although this book has many fascinating aspects, few professional historians will find much of use for their classes. For the general reader seeking to understand Dworkin's body of scholarship applying moral philosophy to legal settings, however, this book may be an apt starting place.

Dworkin has published numerous works merging law and philosophy. In Law's Empire [1986], he fully explicated his own general theory of law, a ...