Ackerman, Bruce, 7, 33–35, 51, 118, 119, 125–27, 130, 131–36, 141, 147, 156n.27, 276–77, 279n.9
Akiva, Rabbi, 142–43, 316, 318
Albania, constitution of, 292, 293
Amar, Akhil Reed, 9, 24n.40, 29, 30, 69n.3, 72n.4, 73, 118, 119, 123–25, 126, 127, 130, 131, 137, 138, 140, 141, 147, 156n.27, 193, 202n.56
“amendment rate,” 243–74 passim
Antieu, Chester James, 268
Appleby, Joyce, 58
Article V. See United States Constitution
Articles of Confederation, 69, 93–96, 131, 154n.30, 166, 169n.21
Australia: constitution of, 261, 266
Bacon, Selden, 195
Balkin, Jack, 33
Barber, Sotirios, 189, 202, 223–25, 226, 228, 231
Beard, Charles, 233n.62
Becker, Carl Lotus, 165
Bell, John, 132
Berns, Walter F., 181n.59
Bickel, Alexander, 118–19, 129
Blackstone, William, 94, 95, 239
Bolling v. Sharpe, 172
Bork, Robert, 14, 23n.34, 35–36, 83
Breckenridge, John, 132
Brest, Paul, 118n.7
British constitution, 8–9, 155
Brown v. Board of Education, 169
Bulgaria: constitution of, 289–91, 293, 294
Burke, Edmund, 168
Calhoun, John C., 193, 201, 211, 216
Canada: constitution of, 164, 168, 182n.60
Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan, 189
Civil War (American), 45, 47, 70, 126, 183
Coleman v. Miller, 196
commerce: power of U.S. Congress to regulate, 7–8, 31
Committee on the Constitution System, 38
Constitutional Convention of 1787, 3, 68, 139, 191
constitutional convention under Article V of U.S. Constitution, 6
constitutionalism, 39–43, 178–80, 187, 226, 229, 275, 302–3
Cooley, Thomas M., 193–94
Corwin Amendment, 216, 218–19, 222, 224–25, 228, 231, 234–36
countermajoritarian dilemma, 118, 126, 129–30, 211–12, 277
Czech Republic: constitution of, 291, 292, 293
Dahl, Robert A., 173
Davis, Jefferson, 48, 113, 167
Declaration of Independence, 89, 96n.18, 101, 166, 180, 181, 221, 222, 232–33
DeGaulle, Charles, 283n.17
Dellinger, Walter, 147, 159n.32
Dillon v. Gloss, 6
Douglass, Frederick, 30–31, 225, 230n.55, 232
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 126, 133, 169, 199
dualist democracy, 65–66, 84–85, 303–4
Eastland, James O., 186
Elster, Jon, 281
Estonia: constitution of, 291, 293, 294
extension of time for ratification of proposed amendments, 5
Federal Farmer, 102
Federalist, The: No. 1, 110; No. 39, 140; No. 40, 178; No. 43, 128, 141; No. 49, 4, 43; No. 78, 97n.23; No. 84, 27; No. 85, 128–41
Finer, Herman, 176–77
Finn, John E., 183
flag-burning amendment to U.S. Constitution (proposed), 202
formalism, 84–86
France: constitution of, 180, 261
Freundel, Barry, 20n.25
Fundamental Constitutions of 1669, 3–4
Garrison, William Lloyd, 233
Geremek, Branislaw, 301
Germany: constitution of, 17, 170, 176, 177, 184, 261, 178, 179, 296–97, 305
Gerry, Elbridge, 191
Gibbons v. Ogden, 169
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 30n.54
Godel, Kurt, 10
Golak Nath’s Case, 168, 176n.40, 178n.49
Goncz, Arpad, 282
Graham, Howard Jay, 32n.63
Greenawalt, Kent, 156
Grimes, Alan P., 112
Gunther, Gerald, 147
Halakha (Jewish law), 8, 20n.25, 307, 310–18
Hamilton, Alexander, 27, 19, 95n.16, 97n.23, 128, 139, 141, 191, 228
Hammer v. Dagenhart, 172n.29, 195
Hans v. Louisiana, 172n.29
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 31–32
Harris, William P., 16, 21, 168–69, 202, 226–28, 232
Hatch, Orrin G., 15n.5
Havel, Vaclav, 285
Hawking, Stephen W., 171
Heller, Francis H., 200
Henry, Patrick, 102–3, 105, 107, 141
Hoar, Roger Sherman, 109–10
Hobbes, Thomas, 233
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 13–14, 166, 172
Holmes, Stephen, 10–11, 34, 40n.14
Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell, 24
Hughes, Charles Evans, 24
Hume, David, 230
Hungary: constitution of, 289–90, 292, 293, 294, 297
index of difficulty of amendment, 256–60, 262–64
“interpretation” (distinguished from “amendment”), 14–18, 21, 24, 33, 259n.32, 241, 279, 308, 311–13, 317–18
Iredell, James, 27
Ireland: constitution of, 180, 261
Isaacson, Eric, 203–6
Israel: constitution of, 8–9
Italy: constitution of, 176, 261
Jaruzelski, Woyciech, 282
Jefferson, Thomas, 24, 42, 90, 91, 92, 101–2, 121n.19, 129, 181, 185, 225, 233
Johnson, Andrew, 48, 75–77, 80, 81
Kant, Immanuel, 167
Kara’ites, 314
Kelsen, Hans, 146, 149, 152, 155–56, 157
Khasbulatov, Ruslan, 281
Kohl, Helmut, 17
Latvia: constitution of, 293, 294
Levinson, Sanford, 37, 147, 202
Lincoln, Abraham, 31, 48, 75, 81, 132, 133, 134, 169–70, 209n.84, 216–17, 219, 234
Lithuania: constitution of, 291, 293
“living Constitution,” 13
Locke, John, 3, 101, 137–38, 233, 238
Macedonia: constitution of, 292–93
Madison, James, 4, 16, 17, 21, 22, 29, 43, 65, 70, 94–95, 97, 99, 106, 114, 128, 137, 138, 139, 140, 166, 178, 191–92, 208
Maimonides, Moses, 310, 315–16
Marbury, William, 194–95
Marbury v. Madison, 23, 126, 169, 216
March, James G., 179n.52
Marshall, John, 21–24, 167, 181n.59, 198, 215, 232
Maryland: constitution of, 96–97
McBride, James, 203n.57
McCarthy, Joseph, 186
McCulloch v. Maryland, 21–24, 32, 34, 126, 169, 181n.59
Moses, 316–17
Mundt, Karl, 186
Murphy, Walter, 9, 10, 19, 121–22, 193, 196–210, 221–22, 226, 228, 229n.52, 231
“nested opposition,” 33
New Deal, 34, 51, 54, 67, 68, 69, 70, 75, 79–82, 126, 134, 279n.9
Nixon, Richard, 186
Norway: constitution of, 176, 261
Olsen, Johan P., 179n.51
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 83
Poland: constitution of, 289–90, 292, 293–94
popular sovereignty, 81–113 passim, 119–22, 124, 125, 132, 136, 187–88, 207, 211, 220, 226–27, 232, 237–41, 243, 246, 251, 263–64, 267, 270, 279
Pozsgay, Imre, 282
Queen v. Keegstra, 184
Ramsay, David, 100
Randolph, John, 172
R.A.V. v. St. Paul, 185
Reconstruction (following U.S. civil war), 48, 67, 68, 69, 73–74, 76–77, 79, 132–33, 183
Rehnquist, William, 13, 14, 29
rescision by a state of its ratification of a proposed amendment, 5
“revision” (as distinguished from “amendment”), 19–20, 176–77, 240
Roane, Spencer, 22
Roe v. Wade, 83
Romania: constitution of, 289–91, 293
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 51–53, 54, 70, 80, 81, 134–35, 174
Rosenau, Pauline Marie, 171
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 124n.31
rule of recognition, 149–52, 154, 155, 156
Russia: constitution of, 291, 293
Schauer, Frederick, 28n.47, 31n.61
Seward, William, 133
Sherman, Roger, 139, 192, 195, 208
slavery, 46, 192, 217–18, 224–25, 232–34
Slovakia: constitution of, 297
Stafford, Jo, 164
state constitutions (within United States), 45, 246–60
Stevens, Wallace: “Crude Foyer,” 142
Sturm, Albert, 246
Sutherland, George, 24
Swayne, Noah, 183
Tammelo, Ilman, 152
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 41
Tribe, Laurence, 147
Trudeau, Pierre, 164
Ukraine: constitution of, 291–92, 293, 294
United States Constitution
—Article I, 117
—Article V, 5–7, 9–10, 21, 36, 71–74, 90–92, 105, 112, 114, 117–18, 122, 127–29, 136–44 passim, 146–47, 168, 175, 191–93, 200, 205, 216, 221–22, 225–27, 257
—Article VII, 95–97, 103, 109, 114, 131, 227
—First Amendment, 27–23, 107, 175n.40, 187, 196–97, 203–5
—Fifth Amendment, 172
—Ninth Amendment, 106–7, 181n.59, 206–10, 221, 227n.46
—Tenth Amendment, 29, 106–7, 208, 221, 226n.46
—Thirteenth Amendment, 19, 30–31, 75, 183, 193
—Fourteenth Amendment, 32, 75–76, 77–78, 183
—Fifteenth Amendment, 31–32, 183, 194
—Sixteenth Amendment, 60
—Seventeenth Amendment, 50, 60
—Eighteenth Amendment, 194
—Nineteenth Amendment, 31–32, 194
—Twenty-fourth Amendment, 32
—Twenty-seventh Amendment, 5–6, 25
United States v. Eichman, 202, 209
Vattel, Emmerich de, 94
Vile, John, 9, 10, 147, 220n.22
Virginia Delcaration of Rights, 99, 101
Walter, Francis, 186
Washington, George, 3, 5, 65, 140, 295n.39
Webster, Noah, 41, 163, 170, 189
White, C. A., 19
White, James Boyd, 22–23, 25, 32, 34
Willkie, Wendell, 168
Wilson, James, 27, 98, 103, 105, 107, 110, 113
Winston, David, 143
Winthrop, James, 195
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 143
Yeltsin, Boris, 281
Zohar, Noam, 8