Acknowledgments
I. Introduction
Modern Constitutionalism as Interplay Between Identity and Diversity / Michael Rosenfeld
II. The Rebirth of Constitutionalism
A New Birth of Constitutionalism: Genetic Influences and Genetic Defects / Louis Henkin
III. Constitutionalism as Bridge Between Self and Other: The Politics and Legitimation of Constitution Making
Constitutional Bootstrapping in Philadelphia and Paris / Jon Elster
Revolution and Constitutionalism in America / David A. J. Richards
Constitutional Powermaking of the New Polity: Some Deliberations on the Relations Between Constituent Power and the Constitution / Ulrich K. Preuss
Dilemmas Arising from the Power to Create Constitutions in Eastern Europe / Andrew Arato
IV. The Identity of the Constitutional Subject and the Search for Authoritative Constitutional Meaning
German Constitutional Culture in Transition / Bernhard Schlink
Constitutional Identity / George P. Fletcher
Reactionary Constitutional Identity / Ruti G. Teitel
Toward a First Amendment Jurisprudence of Respect: A Comment on George Fletcher’s Constitutional Identity / Robin West
Hermeneutics and Constitutional Interpretation / Aharon Barak
The Constitutional Judge: Master or Slave of the Constitution? / Dominique Rousseau
A Philosophical Reconstruction of Judicial Review / Carlos Santiago Nino
V. Freedom, Equality, Individuals, Groups, and the Struggle Between Identity and Difference
Preferred Generations: A Paradox of Restoration Constitutions / Andras Sajo
Free Speech and the Cultural Contingency of Constitutional Categories / Frederick Schauer
The Multicultural Self: Questions of Subjectivity, Questions of Power / M. M. Slaughter
VI. On Drawing Constitutional Boundaries Between Self and Other: The Role of Property Rights
On Property and Constitutionalism / Cara R. Sunstein
Transitional Constitutions / Arthur J. Jacobson
Index
Contributors

Michel Rosenfeld is Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and codirector of the Cardozo-New School Project on Constitutionalism. He is the author of Affirmative Action and Justice and coeditor of Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice and Hegel and Legal Theory.