The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution

The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution offers a comprehensive overview and introduction to the U.S. Constitution from the perspectives of history, political science, law, rights, and constitutional themes, while focusing on its development, structures, rights, and role in the U.S. political system and culture. This Handbook enables readers within and beyond the U.S. to develop a critical comprehension of the literature on the Constitution, along with accessible and up-to-date analysis. The historical essays included in this Handbook cover the Constitution from 1620 right through the Reagan Revolution to the present. Essays on political science detail how contemporary citizens in the United States rely extensively on political parties, interest groups, and bureaucrats to operate a constitution designed to prevent the rise of parties, interest-group politics and an entrenched bureaucracy. The essays on law explore how contemporary citizens appear to expect and accept the exertions of power by a Supreme Court, whose members are increasingly disconnected from the world of practical politics. Essays on rights discuss how contemporary citizens living in a diverse multi-racial society seek guidance on the meaning of liberty and equality, from a Constitution designed for a society in which all politically relevant persons shared the same race, gender, religion and ethnicity. Lastly, the essays on themes explain how in a "globalized" world, people living in the United States can continue to be governed by a constitution originally meant for a society geographically separated from the rest of the "civilized world." Whether a return to the pristine constitutional institutions of the founding or a translation of these constitutional norms in the present is possible remains the central challenge of U.S. constitutionalism today.

List of Contributors 1. Introduction History 2. The Constitution from 1620 to the Early Republic/David Brian Robertson 3. Constitutional Developments from Jackson through Reconstruction/Michael Les Benedict 4. The Gilded Age through the Progressive Era/Ken I. Kersch 5. From the New Deal through the Reagan Revolution/L.A. Powe, Jr. 6. The Reagan Revolution to the Present/Thomas M. Keck Political Science 7. Constitutions as Basic Structure/Neil Komesar 8. The Constitutional Politics of Congress/Neal Devins 9. The Constitutional Politics of the Executive Branch/Mariah Zeisberg 10. The Constitutional Politics of the Judiciary/Justin Crowe 11. The Uneasy Place of Parties in the Constitutional Order/Russell Muirhead, and Nancy L. Rosenblum 12. Social Movements and the Constitution/Mark Tushnet 13. The Administrative State: Law, Democracy, and Knowledge/Adrian Vermeule 14. The Resilience of the American Federal System/Jenna Bednar 15. Empire/Bartholomew H. Sparrow 16. The Evolution of America's Fiscal Constitution/Bill White Law 17. The Executive Power/Stephen M. Griffin 18. Enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment/Ellen D. Katz 19. The Power of Judicial Review/Keith E. Whittington 20. Delegation, Accommodation, and the Permeability of Constitutional and Ordinary Law/Gillian E. Metzger 21. Federalism/Michael S. Greve Rights 22. Equality/ Julie Novkov 23. Liberty/James E. Fleming, and Linda C. McClain 24. Property in the United States Constitution/ Jedediah Purdy 25. Gender, Sex, and the U.S. Constitution/Leslie F. Goldstein 26. Racial Rights/ Girardeau A. Spann 27. Autonomy (of Individuals and Private Associations)/Dale Carpenter 28. Citizenship/Gerald L. Neuman 29. Religion/Winnifred Fallers Sullivan 30. Free Speech and Free Press/ Stephen M. Feldman 31. Criminal Procedure/Carol S. Steiker 32. Habeas Corpus/Paul D. Halliday 33. Native Americans/Matthew L. M. Fletcher 34. Positive Rights/Emily Zackin 35. The Right to Bear Arms/Saul Cornell Themes 36. Constitutionalism/Mark E. Brandon 37. Emergency Powers/Oren Gross 38. Constitutional Authority/Wayne D. Moore 39. Is Constitutional Law Really Law?/David A. Strauss 40. Constitutionalism Outside the Courts/Ernest A. Young 41. State Constitutionalism/John Dinan 42. Interpretation/Jamal Greene 43. Constitutional Change/Gerard N. Magliocca 44. The U.S. Constitution and International Law/Vicki C. Jackson 45. The Constitution in Comparative Perspective/Heinz Klug 46. Education and the Constitution/Elizabeth Beaumont 47. The Economics of Constitutional Law/Maxwell L. Stearns 48. The Constitution and United States Culture/Paul W. Kahn Index