E. DigBaltzell and Howard G.On the Bench Schneiderman, in Society (May-June 1991), Rutgers-The State University, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.

America's aristocrats, Tocqueville ob- served, are to be found not among the rich, but rather occupying "the judicial bench and bar." Insulated from popular pressures and appointed for life, the jus- tices of the Supreme Court appear to be the cream of that aristocracy. It seems only natural that they would be people of privileged origins, especially c...