Laurence H. Tribe is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School. Michael C. Dorf is Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

A lively and important contribution to the continuing dialogue on constitutional interpretation… [The book] serves to remind us of the trouble we make for ourselves when we assume that we can predict the conclusions of the original intentionalist, that liberals are always activists and conservatives never, or that the protections of liberty afforded by a living Constitution have all come from only one ideological camp.

• Introduction 1. How Not to Read the Constitution 2. Structuring Constitutional Conversations 3. Judicial Value Choice in the Definition of Rights 4. Seeking Guidance from other Disciplines: Law, Literature, and Mathematics 5. Reconstructing the Constitution as a Reader's Guide Notes Index of Cases General Index

Laurence H. Tribe is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School. Michael C. Dorf is Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

A lively and important contribution to the continuing dialogue on constitutional interpretation… [The book] serves to remind us of the trouble we make for ourselves when we assume that we can predict the conclusions of the original intentionalist, that liberals are always activists and conservatives never, or that the protections of liberty afforded by a living Constitution have all come from only one ideological camp.

• Introduction 1. How Not to Read the Constitution 2. Structuring Constitutional Conversations 3. Judicial Value Choice in the Definition of Rights 4. Seeking Guidance from other Disciplines: Law, Literature, and Mathematics 5. Reconstructing the Constitution as a Reader's Guide Notes Index of Cases General Index

Laurence H. Tribe is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School. Michael C. Dorf is Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

A lively and important contribution to the continuing dialogue on constitutional interpretation… [The book] serves to remind us of the trouble we make for ourselves when we assume that we can predict the conclusions of the original intentionalist, that liberals are always activists and conservatives never, or that the protections of liberty afforded by a living Constitution have all come from only one ideological camp.

• Introduction 1. How Not to Read the Constitution 2. Structuring Constitutional Conversations 3. Judicial Value Choice in the Definition of Rights 4. Seeking Guidance from other Disciplines: Law, Literature, and Mathematics 5. Reconstructing the Constitution as a Reader's Guide Notes Index of Cases General Index