CONTENTS
PART I
THE NATURE OF THE ENTERPRISE
I. The Futile Search for Legitimacy 3
2. The Pointless Flight from Substance 9
3. The False Equation of Proceduralism with Passivity:
A Constitution We Are Amending-and Construing 21
4. Construing the Sounds of Congressional and
Constitutional Silence 29
PART II
THE SEPARATION AND DIVISION OF POWERS
5. Silencing the Oracle: Carving Disfavored Rights out of the Jurisdiction of Federal Courts 47
6. Entrusting Non-Legislative Power to Congress 66
7. Entrusting Federal Judicial Power to Hybrid Tribunals 84
8. Choke Holds, Church SUbsidies, and Nuclear
Meltdowns: Problems of Standing? 99
9. The Errant Trajectory of State Sovereignty 121
10. Congressional Action as Context Rather Than Message: The Case of Interstate Bank Mergers 138
11. Guam's Vanishing Bonds: A Vignette in Taxation without Legislation 149
PART III
THE STRUCTURE OF SUBSTANTIVE RIGHTS
12. Compensation, Contract, and Capital: Preserving the Distribution of Wealth 165
13. Speech as Power: Of Swastikas, Spending, and the Mask of 'Neutral Principles" 188
14. Dismantling the House That Racism Built: Assessing 'Affirmative Action' 221
15. Reorienting the Mirror of Justice: Gender, Economics, and the Illusion of the 'Natural" 238
16. Refocusing the 'State Action' Inquiry: Separating State Acts from State Actors 246
Epilogue
Notes
Index of Cases
General Index