How to Read the Constitution

Christopher Wolfe is professor of political science at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 IntroductionPart 3 Part I: The Founding and Constitutional InterpretationChapter 4 How to Read and Interpret the ConstitutionChapter 5 The Original Meaning of the Due Process ClauseChapter 6 Between Scylla and Charybdis: Powell and Berger on the Framers and Original IntentionPart 7 Part II: Twentieth-Century Judicial Power: Practice and TheoryChapter 8 How the Constitution Was Taken Out of Constitutional LawChapter 9 The Result-Oriented Adjudicator's Guide to Constitutional, Law I: Laurence Tribe and Michael DorfChapter 10 Law II: Harry WellingtonChapter 11 Grand Theories and Ambiguous Republican Critique: Mark Tushnet on Contemporary Constitutional LawChapter 12 Constitutional Interpretation and PrecedentChapter 13 NotesChapter 14 Index

How to Read the Constitution 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.