A revised, expanded edition of a Schlafly classic

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The gravest threat to American democracy is the overweening power of judges, and recent Supreme Court appointments showed how fierce the fight against judicial tyranny can be. Phyllis Schlafly's spine-stiffening call to arms The Supremacists prepared conservatives for the Roberts and Alito confirmation battles. Now the revised and expanded paperback edition ensures that Americans won't surrender their self-government without a fight.

The Constitution's system of checks and balances between the three branches of government has been an illusion for decades. The reality is an increasingly brazen judicial supremacy. Judges dictate fundamental social policy, impose taxes, manage schools and prisons, and orchestrate elections. In short, Americans have exchanged the rule of law for the rule of judges.

The Supremacists begins with a survey of a half-century of judicial legislation. Chapter by chapter Schlafly reveals the astonishing scope of judicial ambition. Without any constitutional mandate, judges have banned the public recognition of God, redefined marriage, undermined national sovereignty, released a flood of pornography, institutionalized feminist dogma, and handicapped law enforcement.

But Schlafly's most startling revelation is the origin of judicial supremacy. The tyranny of judges stems not from the modest claims of Marbury v. Madison but from the infamous Dred Scott decision - the most carefully concealed skeleton in the judicial supremacists' closet. In spite of everything, Schlafly concludes, the Constitution is on democracy's side. It provides all the tools necessary - if only we'll use them - to rescue America from the tyranny of judges.