- Preface: My Constitutional Odyssey
- Part One: Preliminaries
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- Introduction: Our Two Constitutions
- 1. The Classical Liberal Synthesis
- 2. The Progressive Response
- 3. Constitutional Interpretation: The Original and the Prescriptive Constitutions
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- Part Two: Constitutional Structures
- Section I: The Judicial Power
- 4. The Origins of Judicial Review
- 5. Marbury and Martin
- 6. Standing: Background and Origins
- 7. Modern Standing Law
- 8. The Political Question Doctrine
- Section II: The Legislative Power
- 9. The Commerce Power: Theory and Practice, 1787–1865
- 10. The Commerce Clause in Transition: 1865–1937
- 11. The Commerce Clause: Transformation to Consolidation, 1937–1995
- 12. Constitutional Pushback: 1995 to Present, from Lopez to NFIB
- 13. Enumerated Powers: Taxing and Spending
- 14. The Necessary and Proper Clause
- 15. The Dormant Commerce Clause
- Section III: The Executive Power
- 16. Basic Principles and Domestic Powers
- 17. Delegation and the Rise of Independent Agencies
- 18. Foreign and Military Affairs
- Section I: The Judicial Power
- Part Three: Individual Rights
- Section I: Property, Contract, and Liberty
- 19. From Structural Protections to Individual Rights
- 20. Procedural Due Process: Implementing the Classical Liberal Ideal
- 21. Freedom of Contract
- 22. Takings, Physical and Regulatory
- 23. Personal Liberties and the Morals Head of the Police Power
- Section II: Speech
- 24. Freedom of Speech and Religion: Preliminary Considerations
- 25. Force, Threats, and Inducements
- 26. Fraud, Defamation, Emotional Distress, and Invasion of Privacy
- 27. Government Regulation of the Speech Commons
- 28. Progressive Regulation of Freedom of Speech: Labor, Communications, and Campaign Finance
- Section III: Religion
- 29. Free Exercise
- 30. The Establishment Clause: Theoretical Foundations
- 31. Regulation and Subsidy under the Establishment Clause
- 32. The Commons
- Section IV: Equal Protection
- 33. Race and the Fourteenth Amendment
- 34. Citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment
- 35. Equal Protection and Sex Discrimination
- Section I: Property, Contract, and Liberty
- Part Four: Conclusion
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- Conclusion: The Classical Liberal Alternative
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- Notes
- Index of Cases
- General Index


The Classical Liberal Constitution
The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government
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