Constitutional Construction
Divided Powers and Constitutional MeaningA foundational work that explores how constitutional meaning is developed outside the courtroom through the political process, distinguishing between the judicial interpretation of text and the creative construction of constitutional practice by political actors.
"A bolt of scholarly lightning."
Constitutional Political Economy"Whittington's book is among the most important recently published about constitutional theory and history."
Journal of Interdiscplinary History"This is a superb, pathbreaking book that demonstrates the dual nature of constitutional change. . . . Like all paradigmatic, pathbreaking scholarship, this book raises important theoretical issues and subjects for future empirical study. It is must reading for a wide range of scholars of American institutions and political development, law and courts, history, and American political thought."
American Political Science Review"The quality of this book's history is every bit as good as the quality of its political science."
Law and Politics Book Review"Constitutional Construction offers renewed vigor to a tired field and should provoke some fresh thinking by constitutional scholars."
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