The Constitution in 2020
The Constitution in 2020 is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead. Edited by two of America's leading constitutional scholars, the book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constitutional issues of the future in clear, accessible language. Featuring some of America's finest legal minds--Cass Sunstein, Bruce Ackerman, Robert Post, Harold Koh, Larry Kramer, Noah Feldman, Pam Karlan, William Eskridge, Mark...
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The Constitution in 2020 is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead. Edited by two of America's leading constitutional scholars, the book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constitutional issues of the future in clear, accessible language. Featuring some of America's finest legal minds—Cass Sunstein, Bruce Ackerman, Robert Post, Harold Koh, Larry Kramer, Noah Feldman, Pam Karlan, William Eskridge, Mark Tushnet, Yochai Benkler and Richard Ford, among others—the book tackles a wide range of issues, including the challenge of new technologies, presidential power, international human rights, religious liberty, freedom of speech, voting, reproductive rights, and economic rights. The Constitution in 2020 calls on liberals to articulate their constitutional vision in a way that can command the confidence of ordinary Americans.
I Introduction: The Constitution in 2020 Jack M. Balkin Reva B. Siegel II Interpreting Our Constitution2 Fidelity to Text and Principle Jack M. Balkin II3 Democratic Constitutionalism Robert C. Post Reva B. Siegel 25II Social Rights and Legislative Constitutionalism4 The Minimalist Constitution Cass R. Sunstein 375 Economic Power and the Constitution Frank Michelman 456 Social and Economic Rights in the American Grain: Reclaiming Constitutional Political Economy William E. Forbath 557 State Action in 2020 Mark Tushnet 698 The Missing Jurisprudence of the Legislated Constitution Robin West 799 Remembering How to Do Equality Jack M. Balkin Reva B. Siegel 93III Citizenship and Community10 The Citizenship Agenda Bruce Ackerman 10911 National Citizenship and the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity Goodwin Liu 11912 Terms of Belonging Rachel F. Moran 13313 Hopeless Constitutionalism, Hopeful Pragmatism Richard T. Ford 143IV Democracy and Civil Liberties14 Voting Rights and the Third Reconstruction Pamela S. Karlan 15915 Political Organization and the Future of Democracy Larry Kramer 16716 A Progressive Perspective on Freedom of Speech Robert C. Post 17917 Information, Structures, and the Constitution of American Society Yochai Benkler 18718 The Constitution in the National Surveillance State Jack M. Balkin 19719 The Progressive Past Tracey L. Meares 209V Protecting Religious Diversity20 The Framers' Church-State Problem-and Ours Noab Feldman 22121 Progressive, the Religion Clauses, and the Limits of Secularism William P. Marshall 231VI Families and Values22 A Liberal Vision of U.S. Family Law in 2020William N. Eskridge 24523 A Progressive Reproductive Rights Agenda for 2020 Dawn E. Johnsen 255VII State, Nation, World24 What's Federalism For? Judith Resnik 26925 Progressive Constitutionalism and Transnational Legal Discourse Vicki C. Jackson 28526 "Strategies of the Weak": Thinking Globally and Acting Locally toward a Progressive Constitutional Vision David Cole 29727 America and the World, 2020 Harold Hongju Koh 313Acknowledgments 327About the Contributors 329Index 339
