I am grateful to Professor Baum for his very generous review ofDred Scott and the Problem of ConstitutionalEvil. I am also grateful that Baum in his review andhis response to mine highlights the normative significance of hisresearch on judicial audiences. Dred Scott v.Sanford may have been wrongly decided, Baum suggests,because antislavery justices, not being able to predict the actualimpact of their decision, should simply have freed Dred Scott as amatter of simple justice. In fact, all five southern justices inDred Scott v. Sanford did simple justice bytheir light. More important, however, Baum is now self-consciouslyexploring central questions of American constitutionalism.