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As one of the leading legal voices of the American conservative movement, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has challenged the assumptions and legal methodology of American liberals. In this study of Justice Scalia's legal principles, Richard Brisbin explores the foundation and elaboration of the justice's conservative political vision. Scalia's jurisprudence, Brisbin contends, values order and stability over pragmatism and experiment, relying on a majoritarian view rather than on any other nucleus of founding principles embedded in the American constitution. After reviewing Scalia's legal experiences before joining the Supreme Court and describing the influences on his political and legal thought, Brisbin undertakes a detailed analysis of Scalia's Supreme Court voting record and opinions. The conservative philosophy emerging from Scalia's legal decisions, Brisbin argues, assumes the legitimacy and propriety of political regimes functioning under the rule of the law. It disciplines - sometimes harshly - inappropriates uses of liberty and accepts the proposition that the law can serve as an effective means to structure, interpret, and control political conflicts. Brisbin concludes that the language of Scalia's opinions reinforces a politics of inequality. Scalia routinely excludes from his legal discussions the powerful effect of social and economic factors on equality under the law, and he ignores the failure of supposedly fair legal procedures to eliminate injustice in American society. This text joins a vital discussion on contemporary American conservatism and the use of law to restrain or undermine the New Deal state.