John T. Noonan, Jr. is Robbins Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of a dozen books, including Bribes (1987), Persons and Masks of the Law (2002), and The Lustre of Our Country : The American Experience of Religious Freedom (1998), which was a New York Times Notable Book. He is currently the holder of the Maguire Chair in Ethics at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress and a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

• Acknowledgments Prologue: A Recurrent Struggle Is Resumed 1. The Battle of Boerne 2. Superior Beings 3. Votaries 4. The Sovereign Publisher and the Last of the Menu Girls 5. Perhaps Inconsequential Problems 6. Gang Rape at State U. 7. Sovereign Remedy Notes Index

John T. Noonan, Jr. is Robbins Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of a dozen books, including Bribes (1987), Persons and Masks of the Law (2002), and The Lustre of Our Country : The American Experience of Religious Freedom (1998), which was a New York Times Notable Book. He is currently the holder of the Maguire Chair in Ethics at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress and a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

• Acknowledgments Prologue: A Recurrent Struggle Is Resumed 1. The Battle of Boerne 2. Superior Beings 3. Votaries 4. The Sovereign Publisher and the Last of the Menu Girls 5. Perhaps Inconsequential Problems 6. Gang Rape at State U. 7. Sovereign Remedy Notes Index

John T. Noonan, Jr. is Robbins Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of a dozen books, including Bribes (1987), Persons and Masks of the Law (2002), and The Lustre of Our Country : The American Experience of Religious Freedom (1998), which was a New York Times Notable Book. He is currently the holder of the Maguire Chair in Ethics at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress and a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

• Acknowledgments Prologue: A Recurrent Struggle Is Resumed 1. The Battle of Boerne 2. Superior Beings 3. Votaries 4. The Sovereign Publisher and the Last of the Menu Girls 5. Perhaps Inconsequential Problems 6. Gang Rape at State U. 7. Sovereign Remedy Notes Index