How to Interpret the Constitution

"""An extraordinary work. . . . Sunstein carries the novice reader across this difficult terrain without simplifying the subject and manages to let his own passionate views shine through without shortchanging others. The book is an education.""---Jessica T. Mathews, Foreign Affairs ""At a time of impassioned divisiveness over the Constitution, Harvard Law profess Cass Sunstein's How to Interpret the Constitution is a genuinely courteous book. [He] conveys a hopeful sense that open-minded people who give the reasons for their constitutional thinking will make manifest . . . a better constitutional order.""---Richard Blaustein, Washington Lawyer ""Despite the author’s fair-mindedness, it’s clear that his main targets are the originalist and traditionalist arguments that have recently captured the radical right and are overturning decades of settled constitutional law. Is Sunstein’s interpretive scheme strong enough to halt the further advance of originalist and traditionalist thinking on the Supreme Court? Probably not. But it’s a brave, muscular, and compelling roadblock now standing in the way of originalist ideologues. This book should be in the hands of every law student, constitutional lawyer, judge, and Supreme Court justice. One of the most significant works about constitutional interpretation in recent years."" * Kirkus Reviews (Starred review) *"