Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People

For nearly 250 years, the Constitution has asserted that “we the people” are the actors shaping American law. Harvard Law School’s Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan, in conversation with law professor Kate Shaw, trace how this founding rhetoric became a foundational fallacy. Reflecting on the historical tension between the Supreme Court’s might and the individual Americans who have fought for different hierarchies of power, these legal scholars evaluate how one of the most central branches of our government has upended the central tenets of democracy.