Acknowledgments

Introduction

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1

Alternative Political Systems / Walter F. Murphy

9

2

The Civic Constitution: Some Preliminaries / John E. Finn

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3

Judicial Supremacy and Constitutional Distortion / Christopher L. Eisgruber

70

4

We the Exceptional American People / James E. Fleming

91

5

Constitution and Revolution / Jeffrey K. Tulis

116

6

What Did They Think They Were Doing When They Wrote the U.S. Constitution, and Why Should We Care? / Suzette Hemberger

128

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Notes on Constitutional Maintenance / Sotirios A. Barber

162

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Transformative Constitutionalism and the Case of Religion: Defending the Moderate Hegemony of Liberalism / Stephen Macedo

167

9

Promoting Diversity in the Public Schools (or, to What Extent Does the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment Hinder the Establishment of More Genuinely Multicultural Schools?) / Sanford Levinson

193

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Second Thoughts on the First Amendment / H. N. Hirsch

223

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Constitutional Citizenship / Wayne D. Moore

238

12

The Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy / Keith E. Whittington

261

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Constitutionalism and Constitutional Failure / Mark E. Brandon

298

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Justice, Legitimacy, and Allegiance: "The End of Democracy?" Symposium Revisited / Robert P. George

314

Notes on Contributors

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Index

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