Keri E. Iyall Smith is Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts and is author of The State and Indigenous Movements (Routledge).Louis Edgar Esparza is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at California State University at Los Angeles.Judith R. Blau is Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, retiring in 2014 after a teaching career that spanned forty-five years.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Constituting Human Rights in the US by Keri E. Iyall Smith WHAT’S GOING ON?2. Why Revise by Judith R. Blau3. Beginning the World Again: Social Movements and the Challenge of Constitutional Change by Ben Manski 4. A Place Called Liberty by Rodney D. CoatesCLAIMING OUR RIGHTS5. Wherefore "The Despotism of the Petticoat"? American Women, Gender, and Constitutional Omissions by Susan C. Pearce and Kathleen B. Basile 6. Human Dignity and Equality: Freedoms and Rights, Protection, Fairness, and Security by Judith R. Blau 7. Beyond Welfare, Workfare, and Employment: For a Basic Income as a Constitutional Amendment by Steven Panageotou8. Preserving Economic Security: Housing, Food, and Medical Care by Steven Foy 9. What Latin America and the Caribbean Teach the United States about Constitutionalizing Environmental Human Rights by K. Russell Shekha and Leah Edwards10. Revise Now! by Judith R. Blau TOWARDS ACTION11. Why a Sociology of Human Rights? by Mark Frezzo 12. The Constitution Project: Implementing a Group Projects Structure by Davita Silfen Glasberg 13. For a Decolonized US Constitution – Keri E. Iyall Smith14. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as Constitutional Model by Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsberg and James Melton 15. Rewrite for Rights: Creating a Modern Constitution by Judith R. BlauAppendix 1. Bill of Rights and Subsequent AmendmentsAppendix 2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Keri E. Iyall Smith is Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts and is author of The State and Indigenous Movements (Routledge).Louis Edgar Esparza is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at California State University at Los Angeles.Judith R. Blau is Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, retiring in 2014 after a teaching career that spanned forty-five years.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Constituting Human Rights in the US by Keri E. Iyall Smith WHAT’S GOING ON?2. Why Revise by Judith R. Blau3. Beginning the World Again: Social Movements and the Challenge of Constitutional Change by Ben Manski 4. A Place Called Liberty by Rodney D. CoatesCLAIMING OUR RIGHTS5. Wherefore "The Despotism of the Petticoat"? American Women, Gender, and Constitutional Omissions by Susan C. Pearce and Kathleen B. Basile 6. Human Dignity and Equality: Freedoms and Rights, Protection, Fairness, and Security by Judith R. Blau 7. Beyond Welfare, Workfare, and Employment: For a Basic Income as a Constitutional Amendment by Steven Panageotou8. Preserving Economic Security: Housing, Food, and Medical Care by Steven Foy 9. What Latin America and the Caribbean Teach the United States about Constitutionalizing Environmental Human Rights by K. Russell Shekha and Leah Edwards10. Revise Now! by Judith R. Blau TOWARDS ACTION11. Why a Sociology of Human Rights? by Mark Frezzo 12. The Constitution Project: Implementing a Group Projects Structure by Davita Silfen Glasberg 13. For a Decolonized US Constitution – Keri E. Iyall Smith14. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as Constitutional Model by Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsberg and James Melton 15. Rewrite for Rights: Creating a Modern Constitution by Judith R. BlauAppendix 1. Bill of Rights and Subsequent AmendmentsAppendix 2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Keri E. Iyall Smith is Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts and is author of The State and Indigenous Movements (Routledge).Louis Edgar Esparza is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at California State University at Los Angeles.Judith R. Blau is Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, retiring in 2014 after a teaching career that spanned forty-five years.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Constituting Human Rights in the US by Keri E. Iyall Smith WHAT’S GOING ON?2. Why Revise by Judith R. Blau3. Beginning the World Again: Social Movements and the Challenge of Constitutional Change by Ben Manski 4. A Place Called Liberty by Rodney D. CoatesCLAIMING OUR RIGHTS5. Wherefore "The Despotism of the Petticoat"? American Women, Gender, and Constitutional Omissions by Susan C. Pearce and Kathleen B. Basile 6. Human Dignity and Equality: Freedoms and Rights, Protection, Fairness, and Security by Judith R. Blau 7. Beyond Welfare, Workfare, and Employment: For a Basic Income as a Constitutional Amendment by Steven Panageotou8. Preserving Economic Security: Housing, Food, and Medical Care by Steven Foy 9. What Latin America and the Caribbean Teach the United States about Constitutionalizing Environmental Human Rights by K. Russell Shekha and Leah Edwards10. Revise Now! by Judith R. Blau TOWARDS ACTION11. Why a Sociology of Human Rights? by Mark Frezzo 12. The Constitution Project: Implementing a Group Projects Structure by Davita Silfen Glasberg 13. For a Decolonized US Constitution – Keri E. Iyall Smith14. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as Constitutional Model by Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsberg and James Melton 15. Rewrite for Rights: Creating a Modern Constitution by Judith R. BlauAppendix 1. Bill of Rights and Subsequent AmendmentsAppendix 2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights