Contents -- PART I. INTERPRETATION AND THE CONSTITUTION -- 1. The Aims of Constitutional Theory: A Comparative Analysis -- Court-Skeptical Theory -- Rights-Skeptical Theory -- The Theory of Neutral Principles -- Rights-Based Theory -- The Roles of Political and Moral Theory -- 2. Legal Interpretation and Historiography -- Interpretation and Western Culture -- Legal Interpretation -- Constitutional Interpretation -- 3. Constitutional Interpretation -- Against Positivistic Conventionalism -- A Conventionalist Argument Against Political Theory in Constitutional Interpretation -- History and Contractarian Political Theory in Constitutional Interpretation -- Contractarian Theory and the Inalienable Right to Conscience -- Interpretation and Judicial Review -- PART II. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY -- 4. The Inalienable Right to Conscience -- Covenant and Rights of the Person -- Utilitarian Equality -- Equal Respect for Persons -- Conscience as an Inalienable Human Right -- Contractarian Thought and the Moral Sovereignty of the People -- 5. The Primacy of Religious Toleration -- Historiography of the Religion Clauses -- The Jurisprudence of the Religion Clauses -- PART III. FREE SPEECH -- 6. A Theory of Free Speech -- Conscience and Communicative Integrity -- The Historiography of Free Speech and Press Clauses -- Jurisprudence of Free Speech: Subversive Advocacy -- 7. The Jurisprudence of Free Speech -- Group Libel and Offense in the Public Forum -- Defamation and Privacy -- Obscenity -- Commercial Speech -- The Equalization of Power and Free Speech -- The Public Forum -- Concluding Methodological Remarks -- PART IV. CONSTITUTIONAL PRIVACY -- 8. A Theory of Constitutional Privacy -- The Interpretive Legitimacy of the Right of Constitutional Privacy -- Changing Moral Consensus -- The Harm Principle -- Conscience, Privacy, and General Goods.

Equal Respect and the Religion Clauses -- Primacy of Toleration and Constitutional Privacy -- 9. The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Privacy -- Privacy and Contraception -- Constitutional Privacy and Abortion -- Privacy and Sexual Autonomy -- Beyond Constitutional Privacy -- 10. Methodological Perspectives on Political Theory and Constitutional Interpretation -- Interpreting the Text -- The Scope of Judicial Review -- Review Standards over Federalism and Separation of Powers -- Equal Protection -- Interpretation, Unity of Theory and Practice, and the American Law School -- Bibliography -- Cases -- Statutes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.