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The Civic Constitution provides a compelling case for rethinking the U.S. Constitution. By exploring pivotal struggles over governmental power, individual rights, and the boundaries of citizenship, this book challenges reigning approaches and reveals the profound importance of 'civic founders' who worked to reinvent the constitutional order.

Synthesizes in-depth historical accounts with important theoretical arguments to challenge prevailing legal and theoretical approaches to questions about the source of constitutionalism~Argues that revolutionaries, anti-federalists, abolitionists, and suffragists should be recognized as civic founders and co-founders of the U.S. Constitution~Explores the role of engaged citizens and social movements in shaping the legal text and terms of moder...

Description: The question of literature brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature as such. As literary theory has grown more influential, inter-disciplinary and sophisticated, it has come to concern itself with a much greater range of issues and objects than those traditionally considered literary. Literary theory now addresses philosophy, history, psychology...

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