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Constitutional Theory Books
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America's Constitution: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,777 ratings — published 2005
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,461 ratings — published 2009
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,130 ratings — published 1969
Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 513 ratings — published 2012
Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review (Harvard Paperbacks)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 298 ratings — published 1980
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,789 ratings — published 1788
Common Good Constitutionalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.63 — 141 ratings — published
The Laws of Plato (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,052 ratings — published -360
Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 26 ratings — published 2024
The Cycles of Constitutional Time (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 33 ratings — published
Living Originalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 52 ratings — published 2011
The National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published
The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter (American Political Thought)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 2023
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 676 ratings — published 2021
51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 182 ratings — published
Hidden Laws: How State Constitutions Stabilize American Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.76 — 618 ratings — published 2015
The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 2008
The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 105 ratings — published 2005
The Living Constitution (Inalienable Rights)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 183 ratings — published 2010
The Imperial Presidency (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 479 ratings — published 1973
We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 317 ratings — published 2018
Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published
Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution (Penn State Romance Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,189 ratings — published 2014
The Rule of Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,502 ratings — published 2010
A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.78 — 65 ratings — published 2003
Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 380 ratings — published 1985
A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,536 ratings — published 1999
The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 457 ratings — published 2015
The Invisible Constitution (Inalienable Rights)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.58 — 106 ratings — published 2008
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,879 ratings — published 2019
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,516 ratings — published 1967
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America (The Founders Trilogy)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,016 ratings — published 2024
The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 96 ratings — published
The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 373 ratings — published 1998
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,770 ratings — published 2018
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,027 ratings — published 2015
Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 490 ratings — published
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,263 ratings — published 2010
The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 510 ratings — published 2021
America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 409 ratings — published 2012
Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 120 ratings — published 2012
Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,084 ratings — published
In Chambers: Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 50 ratings — published 2012
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,037 ratings — published 2010
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,842 ratings — published 2007
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,292 ratings — published 1979
The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 78 ratings — published 1986
The Supreme Court (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 954 ratings — published 1987
Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as constitutional-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 655 ratings — published 2010