The Constitution Cannot Save Us: Why We Can No Longer Rely on Our Founding Document

A radical argument by the leading constitutional scholar that American constitutional law lacks the resources to address our current problems, and risks making them worse “A sharp-edged and well-informed takedown of one of America’s sacred cows.” -Publishers Weekly on Mike Seidman’s From Parchment to DustConstitutional theorists on the Right and the Left are united in the belief that constitutional law and review by the Supreme Court are crucial to the success of the American experiment.Both sides believe that, on issues ranging from affirmative action, reproductive freedom, and gun control, to economic regulation, regulation of speech, and the role of religion in American society, popular democracy is just too dangerous to go unchecked. In a radical and paradigm-shifting argument sure to change the debate about the rule of law in the age of Trump, leading constitutional law scholar Louis Michael Seidman argues that the American Constitution lacks the resources to address our current p