"How can anyone claim to really understand our Constitution without knowing what these critical traditions had to say?" --Michael Wallace, Professor of History, John Jay College."A real contribution to the subject of democracy and liberalism." --John Ehrenberg."Does a marvelous job of returning the Constitution to its proper sphere, the product of the rough and tumble of politics." -- Malcom M. Feely, author of Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State."The United States Constitution is a provocative book, much needed for overdue rethinking on the Constitution proper and its amendments. By making available "the underside of criticism and protest that has accompanied the Constitution from its inception" the book cuts through a mountainous mass of conventional bombast, one-sided versions and outright fabrications regarding the Constitution. In clarifying what makes the Constitution's clock tick, the book lives up to its subtitle. --Ira Gollobin, National Emergency Civil Rights Committee
