The State as a Work of Art

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Culture and Constitutionalism

              A Note on Constitutional Interpretation

Prologue: The Fools’ Contest

I. The State as a Work of Art

Chapter 1. Making a Government of Laws

Chapter 2. Aesthetics and the Science of Politics

Chapter 3. The Matter and Meaning of Representation

II. The Culture of Natural Rights

Chapter 4. Slavery and the Language of Rights

Chapter 5. Being Alone in the Age of the Social Contract

Chapter 6. The Godless Constitution and the Sacred Rights of Man

Epilogue: The Age of Constitutions

Notes

Index