The book is aimed at students and scholars of law, politics and philosophy. Of unprecedented breadth, it offers both a survey of, and an original contribution to, the field by some the world's leading scholars of constitutional theory.

1. Introduction: of constitutions and constitutional theory Richard Bellamy and Jeff King; Part I. Values: 2. Dignity Jeremy Waldron; 3. Rights Rowan Cruft; 4. Equality Annabel Lever; 5. Liberty Philip Pettit; 6. Well-being Sarah Conly; 7. Self-Government Thomas Christiano; 8. Justice: procedural and substantive Rainer Forst; 9. Recognition Helder De Schutter; Part II. Modalities: 10. Impartiality Matthew Kramer; 11. Legitimacy Nomi Claire Lazar; 12. Sovereignty David Dyzenhaus; 13. Constituent power Martin Loughlin; 14. Representation Nadia Urbinati; 15. Deliberation Simone Chambers; 16. Opposition Grégoire Webber; 17. Separation of powers Jacob T. Levy; 18. Rule of Law Jeff King; 19. Constitutional conventions Jon Elster; 20. Secularism Cécile Laborde; 21. Constitutional review Christoph Möllers; 22. Constitutional interpretation Timothy Endicott; 23. Proportionality George Letsas; 24. Civil disobedience Candice Delmas; 25. Constitutional entrenchment N. W. Barber; 26. Emergency powers Karin Loevy; 27. Regulation Julia Black; 28. Cost-benefit analysis Matthew Adler; 29. Revolution Nimer Sultany; Part III. Institutions: 30. The state Anna-Bettina Kaiser; 31. The material constitution Marco Goldoni; 32. Federalism Stephen Tierney; 33. Consociationalism Joseph Lacey and Nenad Stojanovi¿; 34. Corporatism Steven Klein; 35. Guarantor (or the so-called 'Fourth Branch') institutions Tarunabh Khaitan; 36. Central banks Jens van 't Klooster; 37. Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and their hybrids Steffen Ganghof; 38. Prerogative Thomas Poole; 39. Administrative state Blake Emerson; 40. Executive rulemaking Susan Rose-Ackerman; 41. Constituent assemblies Joel Colón-Ríos; 42. Citizenship Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh; 43. Elections Daniel Weinstock; 44. Political parties Jonathan White and Lea Ypi; 45. Legislatures Richard Ekins; 46. Referendums Silvia Suteu; 47. Citizen juries/Minipublics Cristina Lafont; 48. Constitutional courts and supreme courts Christine Landfried; 49. Judicial independence David Kosä and Samuel Spá¿; 50. Bills of rights Richard Bellamy; 51. Administrative law Farrah Ahmed; 52. Horizontal effect Oliver Gerstenberg; 53. Global and national constitutionalism Carmen E. Pavel; 54. Regional integration Turkuler Isiksel; 55. International organisations Anne Peters; Part IV. Challenges for Constitutional Democracy: 56. Inequality Roberto Gargarella; 57. Populism Paul Blokker; 58. Climate change Jocelyn Stacey; 59. Migration Sarah Song; 60. Constitutional hardball Mark Tushnet.