The anti-oligarchy constitution : reconstructing the economic foundations of American democracy /
"Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the 'republican form of government' the Constitution requires. Today, courts enforce the Constitution as if it had almost nothing to say about t...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
Harvard University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Constitution-making and the political economy of self-rule in the early republic
- Clashing constitutional political economies in antebellum America
- The second founding: a brief union of three precepts
- Constitutional class struggle in the Gilded Age
- Progressive constitutional ferment in the new century
- The New Deal "democracy of opportunity"
- Constitutional counter-revolution and the legacies of a truncated New Deal
- The Great Society and the great forgetting
- Building a democracy of opportunity today.