The Constitutional Bind : How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them

Contents
Preface: Three Centennials
1: The American Constitutional Romance
I : Disagreement and Experimentation in the Gilded Age, 1887–1917
	2: Settler Crisis and Constitutional Uncertainty
	3: Class Narratives and the High Tide of “Constitution Tinkering”
	4: The Socialist Constitutional Alternative
	5: Developing Universalist Empire in the Philippines
II : The Spread of a New Constitutional Citizenship, 1917–1945
	6: World War I, the Security State, and Constitutional Loyalty
	7: Inclusion and Exclusion in Interwar Americanism
	8: Transformation and Preservation in the New Deal
	9: The Good War and Constitution Worship
III : Consolidating the American Model, 1945–1965
	10: Launching the American Century
	11: Red Scare Constitutionalism
	12: Cold War Reform and the Reframing of American Identity
	13: Constitutional Myths and the Victory of the Court
IV: Alternative Paths and Constitutional Erasure, 1965–1987
	14: Left Resurgence and the Decolonial Project
	15: The Rise of Originalist America
Conclusion: Constitutional Accounting
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index