Toleration and the Constitution

Contents......Page 16
PART I. INTERPRETATION AND THE CONSTITUTION......Page 20
1. The Aims of Constitutional Theory: A Comparative Analysis......Page 22
Court-Skeptical Theory......Page 23
Rights-Skeptical Theory......Page 25
The Theory of Neutral Principles......Page 26
Rights-Based Theory......Page 30
The Roles of Political and Moral Theory......Page 33
2. Legal Interpretation and Historiography......Page 39
Interpretation and Western Culture......Page 40
Legal Interpretation......Page 46
Constitutional Interpretation......Page 52
3. Constitutional Interpretation......Page 65
Against Positivistic Conventionalism......Page 66
A Conventionalist Argument Against Political Theory in Constitutional Interpretation......Page 68
History and Contractarian Political Theory in Constitutional Interpretation......Page 71
Contractarian Theory and the Inalienable Right to Conscience......Page 76
Interpretation and Judicial Review......Page 82
PART II. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY......Page 84
4. The Inalienable Right to Conscience......Page 86
Covenant and Rights of the Person......Page 87
Utilitarian Equality......Page 88
Equal Respect for Persons......Page 90
Conscience as an Inalienable Human Right......Page 104
Contractarian Thought and the Moral Sovereignty of the People......Page 117
5. The Primacy of Religious Toleration......Page 122
Historiography of the Religion Clauses......Page 123
The Jurisprudence of the Religion Clauses......Page 147
PART III. FREE SPEECH......Page 182
6. A Theory of Free Speech......Page 184
Conscience and Communicative Integrity......Page 185
The Historiography of Free Speech and Press Clauses......Page 193
Jurisprudence of Free Speech: Subversive Advocacy......Page 197
7. The Jurisprudence of Free Speech......Page 207
Group Libel and Offense in the Public Forum......Page 208
Defamation and Privacy......Page 214
Obscenity......Page 222
Commercial Speech......Page 228
The Equalization of Power and Free Speech......Page 234
The Public Forum......Page 238
Concluding Methodological Remarks......Page 245
PART IV. CONSTITUTIONAL PRIVACY......Page 248
8. A Theory of Constitutional Privacy......Page 250
The Interpretive Legitimacy of the Right of Constitutional Privacy......Page 251
Changing Moral Consensus......Page 254
The Harm Principle......Page 256
Conscience, Privacy, and General Goods......Page 261
Equal Respect and the Religion Clauses......Page 266
Primacy of Toleration and Constitutional Privacy......Page 271
9. The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Privacy......Page 274
Privacy and Contraception......Page 275
Constitutional Privacy and Abortion......Page 280
Privacy and Sexual Autonomy......Page 288
Beyond Constitutional Privacy......Page 300
10. Methodological Perspectives on Political Theory and Constitutional Interpretation......Page 301
Interpreting the Text......Page 302
The Scope of Judicial Review......Page 309
Review Standards over Federalism and Separation of Powers......Page 311
Equal Protection......Page 315
Interpretation, Unity of Theory and Practice, and the American Law School......Page 322
Bibliography......Page 325
Cases......Page 353
Statutes......Page 357
A......Page 358
C......Page 359
D......Page 360
F......Page 361
I......Page 362
L......Page 363
O......Page 364
Q......Page 365
S......Page 366
W......Page 367