The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them

by Aziz Rana

An eye-opening account of how Americans came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world.

Some Americans today worry that the Federal Constitution is ill-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats and may even exacerbate the worst features of American politics. Yet for as long as anyone can remember, the Constitution has occupied a quasi-mythical status in American political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022635072X
• ISBN13: 9780226350721
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 824 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"