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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prolegomena for a Sampler: Extrajudicial Interpretation of the Constitution, 1789–1861 -- Congressional Attitudes toward Constitutional Interpretation -- Constitutional Analysis by Congressional Staff Agencies -- Hearing about the Constitution in Congressional Committees -- The Federal Appointments Process as Constitutional Interpretation -- Lawyers in Congress -- Congressional Responses to Judicial Review -- Court, Congress, and Civil Rights -- Quasi-Constitutional Law: The Rise of Super-Statutes -- Congressional Fact Finding and the Scope of Judicial Review -- Institutional Design of a Thayerian Congress -- Evaluating Congressional Constitutional Interpretation: Some Criteria and Two Informal Case Studies -- Can Congress Be Trusted with the Constitution? The Effects of Incentives and Procedures -- About the Contributors -- Index