The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism Edited by Bradford P. Wilson and Ken Masugi

In this important book, fourteen of America's leading constitutional scholars assess the Supreme Court's performance in expounding the animating principles of American constitutionalism. The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism will be of great value to students and scholars of American constitutional studies, constitutional law, and American government.

CONTENTS

Preface

Part I: The Supreme Court as Republican Schoolmaster

• The Supreme Court as Republican Schoolmaster: Constitutional Interpretation and the "Genius of the People"
    Walter Berns
• The Supreme Court as Teacher: Lessons from the Second Reconstruction
    Randall Kennedy
• On the Grounds of Rights and Republican Government: What the Judges May Still Teach
    Hadley Arkes
• The Idiom of Common Law in the Formation of Judicial Power
    James R. Stoner, Jr.
• The Court as Astigmatic Schoolmarm: A Case for the Clear-Sighted Citizen
    Stanley C. Brubaker
• Don Quixote and the Constitution
    George Anastaplo

  
  Part II: The Supreme Court and Constitutional Politics

• The Future of Constitutional Criminal Procedure
    Akhil Reed Amar
• Fundamental Rights, the Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism: The Lessons of the Civil Rights Act of 1866
    Michael Zuckert
• Necessary and Proper
    Randy E. Barnett
• Outer Limits: The Commerce Clause and Judicial Review
    Robert P. George and Gerald V. Bradley
• "Merely Judgment": The Supreme Court and the Administrative State
    David K. Nichols
• Judicial Management of the Separation of Powers: Recent Trends
    Nelson Lund
• American Constitutional Sovereignty vs. International Law: Where Is the Supreme Court?
    Jeremy Rabkin
  Index
  Contributors