The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution : Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy

“Eminently readable, and anybody who cares about the future of American democracy in these perilous times can only hope that it will be widely read and carefully considered.”-James Pope, Washington Post“Fishkin and Forbath’s accessible work serves as both history lesson and political playbook, offering the Left an underutilized-and perhaps counterintuitive-tool in the present-day fight against social and economic injustice: the Constitution.”-Benjamin Morse, Jacobin“Aims to recover the Constitution’s pivotal role in shaping claims of justice and equality…in engaging, imaginative prose that makes even the present court’s capture by the ideological right a compelling platform for a revived social-democratic constitutional politics.”-New RepublicOligarchy 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 i