A bold and innovative work of constitutional theory which takes seriously We the People and asks us to define what we stand for and how we will take responsibility for making it happen.
The US Constitution begins with the soaring words "We the People”, but we, the people, have little to do with the document as most of us have come to know it. When most people think of the constitution they think of it as a legal instrument, the province of judges and lawyers, who alone possess the expertise and knowledge necessary to discern its elusive and complex meaning. This book outlines a very different view of the Constitution as a moral and philosophical statement about who we are as a nation.
