The Legal and Political Constitution:
Old and New Ways of Thinking about American Constitutionalism
Professor Carolyn Long's suggested readings:
Ackerman, Bruce. We the People: Foundations (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991).
Barber, Benjamin R. Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).
Brigham, John. The Cult of the Court (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987).
Dworkin, Ronald. Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996).
Fleming, James E. "We the Exceptional American People," Constitutional Commentaries 11 (1994): 355.
Fisher, Louis. Constitutional Dialogues: Interpretation as a Political Process (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988).
Nagel, Robert F. Constitutional Cultures: The Mentalities and Consequences of Judicial Review (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).
Rostow, Eugene V. "The Democratic Character of Judicial Review," Harvard Law Review, LXVI (1952): 193.
Original Documents:
Thomas Jefferson, "Letter to Judge Spencer Roane of September 6, 1819" in Merrill D. Peterson, ed., Thomas Jefferson: Writings (New York: Library of America, 1984), pp. 1425-28.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #78
James Madison Federalist #49 and #51
James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions
Marbury v. Madison 1 Cranch 137 (1803).
Miscellaneous, in Louis Fisher, Political Dynamics of Constitutional Law, 3rd Edition, (St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 2001).
Professor Art Pearl's Suggested Readings:
Dahl, Robert A. (1989). Democracy and its Critics New Haven: Yale U. Press
Dahl, Robert A. (2002). How Democratic Is the American Constitution? New Haven: Yale U. Press.
The Center for Civic Education (1999). We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution Calabasas, CA: Center for Civic Education
Foner, Eric (1998). The Story of American Freedom New York: W. W. Norton.
Pateman, Carole (1992). Feminism and Democracy, in John Arthur (Ed.). Democratic Theory and Practice Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co.
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