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America's Constitution: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,775 ratings — published 2005
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,840 ratings — published 2007
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,764 ratings — published 1788
A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,536 ratings — published 1999
We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.07 — 317 ratings — published 2018
Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,082 ratings — published
Living Originalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.10 — 52 ratings — published 2011
Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.32 — 512 ratings — published 2012
Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.37 — 495 ratings — published 2022
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.56 — 4,961 ratings — published 2022
The Rule of Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,498 ratings — published 2010
The English Constitution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.75 — 501 ratings — published 1867
The United States Constitution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.52 — 27,240 ratings — published 1787
The Constitution: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.11 — 297 ratings — published 2015
Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.53 — 902 ratings — published 2005
Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.87 — 54 ratings — published 2007
A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.87 — 997 ratings — published 1997
The Separation of Church and State: Writings on a Fundamental Freedom by America's Founders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.26 — 57 ratings — published 2004
Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies (Aspen Treatise Series)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.97 — 546 ratings — published 1997
Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.74 — 655 ratings — published 2010
Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.08 — 181 ratings — published 2011
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,034 ratings — published 2010
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,305 ratings — published 1996
Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review (Harvard Paperbacks)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.19 — 298 ratings — published 1980
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,073 ratings — published 1966
The Supreme Court (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.80 — 953 ratings — published 1987
The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.11 — 373 ratings — published 1998
What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.78 — 37 ratings — published 2005
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,886 ratings — published 2025
Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution (Penn State Romance Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,188 ratings — published 2014
Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,575 ratings — published 2007
What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.86 — 479 ratings — published 2002
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.08 — 66 ratings — published 1992
Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.99 — 119 ratings — published
Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.66 — 62 ratings — published 1982
Street Performers: Buskers and Busking (Street Savy Empowerment Guides)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.26 — 96 ratings — published
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,903 ratings — published 2010
The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.74 — 458 ratings — published 2015
The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law Series)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,680 ratings — published 1961
Originalism as Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.13 — 57 ratings — published
Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.73 — 222 ratings — published 2006
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.69 — 498 ratings — published 1913
Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published 1999
Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States (Eighth Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.71 — 14 ratings — published 1972
Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.15 — 179 ratings — published 2003
The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 3.57 — 208 ratings — published 2001
America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.14 — 408 ratings — published 2012
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 4.06 — 156 ratings — published 2010
The Chief Justiceship of Warren Burger, 1969-1986 (Chief Justiceships of the United States Supreme Court)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-law)
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 2000
“I tell my first-year law students that they will be learning how to read. "Huh? We've known how to read since we were six!" Sure, that's true, in the sense that students come to law school knowing cognitively how to translate black-and-white marks on a page into words. But what I mean by read is different. It requires you to isolate phrases, then individual words, and then figure out as many interpretations of those words as possible. Once you have the various options on the table, you can start to prioritize the options and choose which is best---or at least how to argue for one over the other on behalf of a client. This is a skill, and one that is becoming increasingly rare in a world of information overload, texts, tweets, and sound bites.”
― How to Read the Constitution--and Why
― How to Read the Constitution--and Why
“We have rule of lawyers, not rule of law. The legal profession has a monopoly over one branch of government as it was never intended to. The American Bar Association owns an entire branch of our government. We should not be surprised that we are the most litigious society in the world. It is big business with a stranglehold on one of the three branches of government.”
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