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Create Your Own Constitutional Theory, Michael C. Dorf
Create Your Own Constitutional Theory, Michael C. Dorf
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Should Progressives Support The Constitution?, Steven H. Shiffrin
Should Progressives Support The Constitution?, Steven H. Shiffrin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In the closing pages of Constitutional Faith Sanford Levinson asks himself whether he would have signed the Constitution in Philadelphia, warts and all. He concludes that he would have joined the signers primarily because of a progressive faith that the evils of the Constitution would erode with time. So too, Levinson's frequent co-author J.M. Balkin, asks in the midst of a symposium on fidelity in constitutional theory, whether the present Constitution deserves our fidelity. Balkin does not deny the presence of sanctioned evil under our Constitution. He suggests, for example, that the Constitution fails to protect the poor. In so …