... tribunal to steal an election that Bush had fairly won. If a recount threatened to reverse the outcome, the Florida legislature was prepared to “ap-point” its own electors to the electoral college, ... government, such as it was, still had to look to the states to enforce its directives. If it wished to lay a tax, for exam-ple, it had to request the states to assess and collect it. The Articlescarefully ... briefly told in the Introduction. In the aftermath, judicial efforts to protect economicliberties have subsisted under a cloud. To understand that cloud, andhow it developed, is crucial to understanding...