We the People, Volume 2, Transformations

Bruce Ackerman

    Acknowledgments

    PART 1: IN THE BEGINNING

    1. Higher Lawmaking

    2. Reframing the Founding

    3. The Founding Precedent

    PART 2: RECONSTRUCTION

    4. Formalist Dilemmas

    5. Presidential Leadership

    6. The Convention/Congress

    7. Interpreting the Mandate

    8. The Great Transformation

    PART 3: MODERNITY

    9. From Reconstruction to New Deal

    10. Rethinking the New Deal

    11. The Missing Amendments

    12. Rediscovery or Creation?

    13. Reclaiming the Constitution

    Frequently Cited Works

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: We the People, Volume 2, Transformations
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Harold Shapirox

Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University.