Contents

Preface

INTRODUCTION
Why Care What the Constitution Says?

PART I. Constitutional Legitimacy

CHAPTER ONE
The Fiction of “We the People”: Is the Constitution Binding on Us?

CHAPTER TWO
Constitutional Legitimacy without Consent: Protecting the Rights Retained by the People

CHAPTER THREE
Natural Rights as Liberty Rights: Retained Rights, Privileges, or Immunities

PART II. Constitutional Method

CHAPTER FOUR
Constitutional Interpretation: An Originalism for Nonoriginalists

CHAPTER FIVE
Constitutional Construction: Supplementing Original Meaning

CHAPTER SIX
Judicial Review: The Meaning of the Judicial Power

PART III. Constitutional Limits

CHAPTER SEVEN
Judicial Review of Federal Laws: The Meaning of the Necessary and Proper Clause

CHAPTER EIGHT
Judicial Review of State Laws: The Meaning of the Privileges or Immunities Clause

CHAPTER NINE
The Mandate of the Ninth Amendment: Why Footnote Four Is Wrong

CHAPTER TEN
The Presumption of Liberty: Protecting Rights without Listing Them

PART IV. Constitutional Powers

CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Proper Scope of Federal Power: The Meaning of the Commerce Clause

CHAPTER TWELVE
The Proper Scope of State Power: Construing the “Police Power”

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Showing Necessity: Judicial Doctrines and Application to Cases

CONCLUSION
Restoring the Lost Constitution

Index of Cases

Index of Names

General Index