Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. The Puzzle of Our Constitutional Practice 1
5. Chapter 1. Accounts of Our Constitutional Practice 12
6. Chapter 2. Judges as Agents of the Past: The Burdens of Originalism 30
7. Chapter 3. Enactment-Centered History as an Originalist Supplementation of the Text 42
8. Chapter 4. Three Rescue Attempts: Lean, Middling, and Thick 58
9. Chapter 5. Enter Partnership: The Justice-Seeking Account of Our Constitutional Practice 70
10. Chapter 6. The Thinness of Constitutional Law and the Underenforcement Thesis 84
11. Chapter 7. The Conceptual Salience of Underenforcement 93
12. Chapter 8. The Domain of Constitutional Justice 129
13. Chapter 9. The Birth Logic of a Democratic Constitution 161
14. Chapter 10. Democracy and the Justice-Seeking Constitution 194
15. Conclusion 222
16. Notes 227
17. Index 241