Steven Kautz is Associate Professor and Arthur Melzer and Jerry Weinberger are Professors in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. M. Richard Zinman is University Distinguished Professor of Political Theory in James Madison College at Michigan State University.

Introduction: The Idea of Constitutionalism
—Steven Kautz, Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman
PART I. PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Ideas of Constitutionalism Ancient and Modern
—Nathan Tarcov
2. On Liberal Constitutionalism
—Steven Kautz
PART II. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
3. Judicial Review and the Incomplete Constitution: A Madisonian Perspective on the Supreme Court and the
Idea of Constitutionalism
—Michael P. Zuckert
4. Constitutionalism as Judicial Review: Historical Lessons from the U.S. Case
—Leslie Friedman Goldstein
5. Who Has Authority over the Constitution of the United States?
—James Stoner
PART III. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
6. The Supreme Court and Contemporary Constitutionalism: The Implications of the Development of Alternative Forms of Judicial Review
—Mark Tushnet
7. The Sounds of Silence: Militant and Acquiescent Constitutionalism
—Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn
PART IV. CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY
8. Constitutionalism and Democracy: Understanding the Relation
—Larry Alexander
9. Active Liberty and the Problem of Judicial Oligarchy
—Robert P. Young, Jr.
10. Judicial Power and Democracy: A Machiavellian View
—Rogers M. Smith
PART V. CONSTITUTIONALISM AND POLITICS
11. Constitutional Constraints in Politics
—Keith E. Whittington
12. "The Court Will Clean It Up": Executive Power, Constitutional Contestation, and War Powers
—Benjamin A. Kleinerman
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments

Edited by Steven Kautz, Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman