"It Is So Ordered"

It Is So Ordered, by Warren E. Burger, is... well, the cover blurb is a reasonable description:

The former Chief Justice of the United States recounts fourteen of the cases and historical events that shaped the Constitution.

It is, Burger says, "a story and not a formal history"; in other words, it is a popular account of some of the major cases. Further comments are under the cut.

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