Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Idea of Constitutionalism -- Part I. Philosophical Perspectives -- 1. Ideas of Constitutionalism Ancient and Modern -- 2. On Liberal Constitutionalism -- Part II. Historical Perspectives: American Constitutional History -- 3. Judicial Review and the Incomplete Constitution: A Madisonian Perspective on the Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism -- 4. Constitutionalism as Judicial Review: Historical Lessons from the U.S. Case -- 5. Who Has Authority over the Constitution of the United States? -- Part III. Comparative Perspectives -- 6. The Supreme Court and Contemporary Constitutionalism: The Implications of the Development of Alternative Forms of Judicial Review -- 7. The Sounds of Silence: Militant and Acquiescent Constitutionalism -- Part IV. Constitutionalism and Democracy -- 8. Constitutionalism and Democracy: Understanding the Relation -- 9. Active Liberty and the Problem of Judicial Oligarchy -- 10. Judicial Power and Democracy: A Machiavellian View -- Part V. Constitutionalism and Politics -- 11. Constitutional Constraints in Politics -- 12. "The Court Will Clean It Up": Executive Power, Constitutional Contestation, and War Powers -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.