A brisk and productive exploration of the theoretical basis and the practical

effects of busing for school desegregation. RS: "My submission is that the values

embodied in the 14th Amendment--values of racial equality, values of integration--dictate that there should be a constitutional right to attend a racially integrated school to the maximum extent feasible; that the only justification that a school board can advance for not busing for integration ... is that the so-called neighborhood school is administratively convenient to operate; and I would submit that when you weigh administrative convenience against the values embodied in the 14th Amendment, the value choice should be in favor of the duty to integrate." WFB: "... In the first place, I don't really think that any scholar who probed the origins of the 14th Amendment would come to any such bizarre conclusion as your own ... But you seem to be saying that to the extent that you discover that which you find very valuable ... you feel perfectly free to bend the instruments of the law to that purpose...." RS: "I base my argument on historical constitutional values, not on a notion of empirical policy."