............................................................................................................................. Contents Part I - The Nature of the Enterprise 1. The Futile Search for Legitimacy 2. The Pointless Flight from Substance 3. The False Equation of Proceduralism with Passivity: A Constitution We Are Amending - and Construing 4. Construing the Sounds of Congressional and Constitutional Silence Part II - The Separation and Division of Power 5. Silencing the Oracle: Carving Disfavored Rights out of the Jurisdiction of Federal Courts 6. Entrusting Non-Legislative Power to Congress 7. Entrusting Federal Judicial Power to Hybrid Tribunals 8. Choke Holds, Church Subsidies, and Nuclear Meltdowns: Problems of Standing? 9. The Errant Trajectory of State Sovereignty 10. Congressional Action as Context Rather Than Message: The Case of Interstate Bank Mergers 11. Guam's Vanishing Bonds: A Vignette in Taxation without Legislation Part III - The Structure of Substantive Rights 12. Compensation, Contract, and Capital: Preserving the Distribution of Wealth 13. Speech as Power: Of Swastikas, Spending, and the Mask of "Neutral Principles" 14. Dismantling the House That Racism Built: Assessing "Affirmative Action" 15. Reorienting the Mirror of Justice: Gender, Economics, and the Illusion of the "Natural" 16. Refocusing the "State Action" Inquiry: Separating State Acts from State Actors Epilogue Notes Index of Cases General Index ............................................................................................................................. |