JOHN R. VILE is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of Rewriting the United States Constitution (Praeger, 1991), The Constitutional Amending Process in American Political Thought (Praeger, 1992), A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments (Praeger, 1993), and Contemporary Questions Surrounding the Constitutional Amending Process (Praeger, 1993), and is the editor of The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Change in America (1993).

• Preface The Process of Constitutional Amendment and Constitutional Change A Survey of Constitutional Amendments and Their Impact on Change A Selective Look at Supreme Court Decisions and Their Impact on Change A Selective Look at the Impact of the Political Branches in Effecting Change Examining the Terminology and Theory of Constitutional Change Laws, Orders, Judicial Decisions, and Amendments: A Comparative Analysis Appendix: Amendments to the U.S. Constitution Selected Bibliography Index