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The U.S. Constitution: Creation, Reconstruction, the Progressives, and the Modern Era 2nd Edition Steven Gow Calabresi ISBN 9798887866710

The U.S. Constitution: Creation, Reconstruction, the Progressives, and the Modern Era (2d ed. 2025) offers the most comprehensive, historically grounded, and textually oriented casebook treatment of the Constitution available today. It provides unmatched coverage of the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Reconstruction Amendments, and modern constitutional developments, situating doctrine firmly within its historical and textual foundations.

The book uniquely traces the Constitution clause by clause, beginning with the Preamble and concluding with the Twenty-Seventh Amendment, incorporating materials on every constitutional provision—an approach not undertaken by any other casebook. Extensive background on the drafting and ratification of the Constitution places subsequent doctrinal developments in meaningful context, while the text preserves robust coverage of modern constitutional law.

Balancing historical depth with contemporary relevance, the casebook presents the evolution of major constitutional doctrines alongside current Supreme Court jurisprudence. In light of the Court’s growing emphasis on originalism, the book features extensive analysis of original meaning by two leading originalist scholars, while also engaging thoroughly with alternative interpretive methodologies that continue to shape constitutional doctrine.

The text offers particularly deep and sophisticated treatment of separation of powers, federalism, and Reconstruction, combining historical insight with theoretical rigor in a way unmatched by competing casebooks.

Fully updated through the conclusion of the October 2024 Supreme Court Term in June 2025, the second edition includes nine new principal cases, a dozen new note cases, and numerous additional textual notes and questions reflecting recent doctrinal and scholarly developments, as well as anticipating future trends.

Written by highly accomplished scholars with extensive experience authoring casebooks, law review articles, and university press books, the text is designed with teaching and learning in mind. Its modular organization into discrete, assignable units allows instructors maximum flexibility to tailor constitutional law courses to their pedagogical goals.

The U.S. Constitution: Creation, Reconstruction, the Progressives, and the Modern Era 2nd Edition Steven Gow Calabresi ISBN 9798887866710, 979-8887866710 & 9798317702786

Authors:
Steven Gow Calabresi
Gary Lawson