Aim[s] to revive and refresh egalitarian traditions and movements in America for use in current American politics.--Robert Gordon "Stanford Lawyer" (6/16/2022 12:00:00 AM)Masterfully shows how generations of progressives made policy arguments, including economic policy arguments, from within the American constitutional tradition...Fishkin and Forbath demonstrate how constitutional arguments grounded in the democracy-of-opportunity tradition were central to the politics of the American left from the Founding until the New Deal, only to fall away starting in the mid-twentieth century...Holds many lessons for students of American legal and political history.--Jonathan S. Gould "Harvard Law Review" (6/10/2022 12:00:00 AM)Monumental...The book's ambitions are vast; its theoretical sophistication and attention to historical detail never fails to impress; and at 632 pages, its pace never flags. Fishkin and Forbath seek to reorient the left towards the Constitution by framing the Constitution an instrument of political economy...Readers across the political spectrum will benefit from engagement with The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution and the tradition that it recovers and enriches.--Evan Bernick "New Rambler" (5/11/2022 12:00:00 AM)Brilliant...Challenge[s] the prestige and legitimacy that today's liberals still largely ascribe to the Court as an institution...A sweeping and often gripping history of constitutional and political argument and engagement.--Caroline Fredrickson "Washington Monthly" (3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM)Eminently readable, and anybody who cares about the future of American democracy in these perilous times can only hope that it will be widely read and carefully considered.--James Pope "Washington Post" (3/18/2022 12:00:00 AM)Thoroughly and brilliantly provides the forgotten history of the positive Constitution that formed the backbone of the post-Civil War Amendments. In a magisterial study that is a must read for all students of American constitutional development...Fishkin and Forbath meticulously document how Americans, progressive Americans in particular, for almost two centuries, insisted that the Constitution of the United States mandated a political economy that generated a strong middle class with the resources necessary to prevent political domination by a small group of economic elites.--Mark A. Graber "Democracy"Rousing and authoritative...attempt[s] to recover the Constitution's pivotal role in shaping claims of justice and equality...Throughout this epic reconsideration of the foundational terms of our constitutional politics, Fishkin and Forbath range wide and deep across our legal, economic, and political history to deliver just this substantive view--and do so in engaging, imaginative prose that makes even the present court's capture by the ideological right a compelling platform for a revived social-democratic constitutional politics.-- "New Republic" (2/10/2022 12:00:00 AM)Over 150 years after the abolition of slavery, as the nation deals with the repercussions of a second Gilded Age and wrestles with similar questions of wealth, redistribution, equality, and democracy (all in the face of a conservative supermajority on the high court), Fishkin and Forbath's accessible work serves as both history lesson and political playbook, offering the Left an underutilized--and perhaps counterintuitive--tool in the present-day fight against social and economic injustice: the Constitution.--Benjamin Morse "Jacobin" (2/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)Want to fight oligarchy in America? In this fascinating and brilliant reconstruction of American constitutional thought, Fishkin and Forbath show how economic freedom and constitutional freedom used to be intertwined in public thought, and how they got separated--with devastating results. Part mystery story (how did we get here?), and part call to arms, their book is a must-read for all people ready for a new democracy of meaningful opportunity.--Zephyr Teachout, Fordham L
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