A LIVING CONSTITUTION OR FUNDAMENTAL LAW?
American Constitutionalism in Historical Perspective
Herman Belz

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC.
Lanham • Boulder • New York • Oxford

Contents

  Acknowledgments vii

  Introduction: Written Constitutionalism as the American Project 1

  1 Constitutionalism and the American Founding 15

  2 Constitutional Realism in the Gilded Age 41

  3 The Critique of Constitutionalism in the Progressive Era 57

  4 Andrew C. McLaughlin and the Defense of Constitutionalism 77

  5 Changing Conceptions of Constitutionalism in the Era of World War II and the Cold War 95

  6 The New Left Attack on Constitutionalism 129

  7 Bureaucracy and Constitutionalism 147

  8 Constitutional and Legal History in the 1980s: Reflections on American Constitutionalism 165

  9 History, Theory, and the Constitution 201

  10 The Originalist Challenge to the Living Constitution 221

  Index 273

  About the Author 277