图书目录：Preface

Introduction

One

American Constitutionalism

   The Idea of American Constitutionalism

   The Sovereignty of the People

   The Problem of Constitutional Change

Two

The Constitution and Political Institutions

  Madison and the Problem of Faction

   The Constitution and the Concept of the State

   The Constitution and American Political Development

Three

Judicial Review and American Democracy

   The Establishment of Judicial Independence

  Judicial Review and Democracy in the Modern State

   The Contemporary Debate and the Role of the

     Supreme Court

Four

Problems of Constitutional Adjudication

   The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism

   The Process of Judicial Decisionmaking

Five

Theories of Constitutional Interpretation

   A Pluralist Theory of American Constitutional

     Interpretation

   The Contemporary Theoretical Debate

   Democracy and Theories of Interpretation

   The Problem of History in Constitutional

     Interpretation

   Interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment

   Republicanism and Constitutional Philosophy

Six

Constitutional Crisis and Reform

   Constitutional Crisis

   Constitutional Reform

   The Future of American Constitutionalism

Index