How to Read the Constitution Originalism, Constitutional Interpretation, and Judicial Power
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Biographical note
Christopher Wolfe is professor of political science at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<i>How to Read the Constitution</i> is the mature reflections of one of America's leading constitutional theorists and, in my view, the pre-eminent defender of an 'originalist' approach to constitutional review by courts. Wolfe is in full bloom.
- Gerard Bradley, University of Notre Dame,
One of the best defenses of an approach to constitutional interpretation that has few academic defenders, it is clearly and fairly well written both in its own argument and in recording the arguments of others.
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Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Part I: The Founding and Constitutional Interpretation
Chapter 4 How to Read and Interpret the Constitution
Chapter 5 The Original Meaning of the Due Process Clause
Chapter 6 Between Scylla and Charybdis: Powell and Berger on the Framers and Original Intention
Part 7 Part II: Twentieth-Century Judicial Power: Practice and Theory
Chapter 8 How the Constitution Was Taken Out of Constitutional Law
Chapter 9 The Result-Oriented Adjudicator's Guide to Constitutional, Law I: Laurence Tribe and Michael Dorf
Chapter 10 Law II: Harry Wellington
Chapter 11 Grand Theories and Ambiguous Republican Critique: Mark Tushnet on Contemporary Constitutional Law
Chapter 12 Constitutional Interpretation and Precedent
Chapter 13 Notes
Chapter 14 Index