Introduction 1. How Not to Read the Constitution 2. Structuring Constitutional Conversations 3. Judicial Value Choice in the Definition of Rights 4. Seeking Guidance from other Disciplines: Law, Literature, and Mathematics 5. Reconstructing the Constitution as a Reader's Guide Notes Index of Cases General Index
Laurence H. Tribe is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School. Michael C. Dorf is Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.
A lively and important contribution to the continuing dialogue on
constitutional interpretation… [The book] serves to remind us of
the trouble we make for ourselves when we assume that we can
predict the conclusions of the original intentionalist, that
liberals are always activists and conservatives never, or that the
protections of liberty afforded by a living Constitution have all
come from only one ideological camp.
*New York Times Book Review*
This book amounts to an energetic and often highly illuminating
discussion of how constitutional interpretation inevitably involves
substantive choices but is not simply a matter of making things up…
On Reading the Constitution reminds us of the extent to which our
understanding of constitutional interpretation remains in a
primitive state… Tribe and Dorf’s book counts as an unusually
articulate contribution to the large number of recent works
attempting to justify, to preserve, and to extend the work of the
Warren Court.
*New Republic*
[A] well-argued and clearly written volume… By the clarity and
persuasiveness of their detailed analysis of particular cases,
they…establish that progress is made most securely when one
proceeds with caution and humility.
*Cambridge Law Journal*
A provocative, well argued book.
*Political Science Quarterly*
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