Constitutional reform is a topic of perennial academic debate, perhaps now more than ever amid sharp polarization in the electorate and government. At once a cogent, new contribution to the scholarly literature and appropriate for American politics and government students, this book mounts a provocative, nonideological defense of the US Constitution, directly engaging proposals for reform and providing a rare systematic argument for continuity: Our politics may be broken but our system is not. Writing from an international perspective with an array of fascinating data,the authordraws on theory, law, and history to defend the republican order under political stress and intellectual challenge.
Constitutional critiques : the re-emergence of Jeffersonian constitutional angst -- The preamble, then and now : a more perfect union -- Governing institutions -- Amendments and interpretation
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why the Constitution Needs Defending Today -- 1 Constitutional Critiques: The Reemergence of Jeffersonian Constitutional Angst -- 2 The Preamble, Then and Now: A More Perfect Union -- 3 Governing Institutions -- 4 Amendments and Interpretations -- Conclusion: Cults, Crises, Conventions, and Crossroads -- Bibliography -- Index
Introduction: Why the Constitution needs defending today -- Constitutional critiques : the reemergence of Jeffersonian constitutional angst -- The preamble, then and now : a more perfect union -- Governing institutions -- Amendments and interpretation -- Conclusion: Cults, crises, conventions and crossroads.
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