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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 1997 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Laws and Courts section of the American Political Science Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997 "The entire package within which these familiar positions take shape is often refreshingly original... There is much in Moore's work that merits attention from constitutional theorists."--Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn, The Law and Politics Book Review "[Moore's] reflections on constitutional law are excellent... This book will be useful to professors of Constitutional Law and possibly to students in courses in advanced studies of the Constitution... Professor Moore's treatment of the Dred Scott decision is especially interesting since it weaves in materials that will not be familiar to many readers."--Robert F. Drinan, Law Books in Review
Table of ContentsList of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction. Reconceiving Constitutional Politics3Ch. 1Toward Constitutional Citizenship: Official Pronouncements13Ch. 2Toward Constitutional Citizenship: Unofficial Commitments37Ch. 3Acting through Government and Independently66Ch. 4Enumerations and Implications105Ch. 5Problems of Practical Politics152Ch. 6Reconceiving Supreme Powers173Ch. 7Exercising Powers and Securing Rights196Ch. 8Interpretive Autonomy Revisited239Conclusion. We the People: Reflections275Postscript287Index291
