This important volume confronts and explores ethical problems facing career managers and executive is government asserting that the fundamental ethical issue for bureaucrats is how best to use discretionary power in manner consistent with the values of a democratic regime. Focusing on Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values equality, freedom, and property the book provides a method that has integrated successfully the study of ethics into the curricula of many schools of public administration and public management training canters. In addition to revising and expanding much of the original material, the new Second Edition focuses on such timely issues as abortion, affirmative action, bureaucrat bashing, civil disobedience, ethics in government, the Iran-Contra scandal, moral absolutism, privileged communications, religious fundamentalism, and whistle blowing. All students of public administration will find this an invaluable text.