John Marshall and the Genesis of the Tradition -- Kent, Story, and Shaw: The Judicial Function and Property Rights -- Roger Taney and the Limits of Judicial Power -- Miller, Bradley, Field, and the Reconstructed Constitution -- Political Ideologies, Professional Norms, and the State Judiciary in the Late Nineteenth Century: Cooley and Doe -- John Marshall Harlan I: The Precursor -- The Tradition at the Close of the Nineteenth Century -- Holmes, Brandeis, and the Origins of Judicial Liberalism -- The Four Horsemen: The Sources of Judicial Notoriety -- Hughes and Stone: Ironies of the Chief Justiceship -- Personal versus Impersonal Judging: The Dilemmas of Robert Jackson -- Cardozo, Learned Hand, and Frank: The Dialectic of Freedom and Constraint -- Rationality and Intuition in the Process of Judging; Roger Traynor -- The Mosaic of the Warren Court: Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan -- The Anti-Judge: William O. Douglas and the Ambiguities of Individuality -- The Burger Court and the Idea of "Transition" in the American Judicial Tradition -- The Tradition and the Future