Contents -- 1 Introduction -- The Appeal to Historical Exemplars -- The Appeal to Moral Reality -- The Appeal to Conventions -- A Constructive Alternative -- 2 The Founders' Interpretive Uses of History -- The Emancipation of Religious and Political Intelligence -- Political Psychology: The Theory of Faction -- Classical Republicanism as a Negative Exemplar -- Political Psychology: The Theory of Fame -- Stages of History and Commercial Republics -- The British Constitution: Negative or Positive Exemplar? -- 3 Political Legitimacy and Constitutional Founding -- Political Legitimacy and Constitutional Justification -- The Idea of Founders and the Immortal Commonwealth -- Constitutional Structures -- 4 Interpreting the Founders over Time -- Interpretation of a Lockean Constitution for Posterity -- Abstract Connotations and the Contextuality of Constitutional Interpretation: Federalism as a Case Study -- 5 Interpreting Enumerated Rights: Religious Liberty and Free Speech -- Comparison of the Speech and Religion Clauses -- An Interpretive Theory of the Modern Law of Free Speech -- Why Speech? -- In Defense of General Interpretive Theory -- 6 Interpreting Unenumerated Rights: Constitutional Privacy -- The 1986 Privacy Cases -- The Interpretive Legitimacy of Constitutional Privacy: Griswold v. Connecticut -- Justice White on Abortion and Homosexuality: A Critical View -- 7 Interpreting Equal Protection -- Procedural versus Substantive Models of Equal Protection -- The Unconstitutionality of Racial Segregation -- Affirmative Action -- Nonracial Classifications (Gender) -- The Analogy between Race and Gender -- 8 Constitutional Decadence and Educational Responsibility -- On Constitutional Decadence -- Educational Responsibility: Universities -- Educational Responsibility: Law Schools -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L.

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