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Keith Whittington Professor of Politics Princeton University
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Congress and the Constitution
Neal Devins and Keith E. Whittington, editors
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Neal Devins and Keith E. Whittington Introduction 1
David P. Currie Prolegomena for a Sampler: Extrajudicial Interpretation of the Constitution 18
Bruce G. Peabody Congressional Attitudes toward Constitutional Interpretation 39
Louis Fisher Constitutional Analysis by Congressional Staff Agencies 64
Keith E. Whittington Hearing about the Constitution in Congressional Committees 87
Michael J. Gerhardt The Federal Appointments Process as Constitutional Interpretation 110
John C. Yoo Lawyers in Congress 131
J. Mitchell Pickerill Congressional Responses to Judicial Review 151
Michael J. Klarman Court, Congress, and Civil Rights 173
William N. Eskridge Jr. and John Ferejohn Quasi-Constitutional Law: The Rise of Super-Statutes 198
Neal Devins Congressional Fact Finding and the Scope of Judicial Review 220
Elizabeth Garrett and Adrian Vermeule Institutional Design of a Thayerian Congress 242
Mark Tushnet Evaluating Congressional Constitutional Interpretation: Some Criteria and Two Informal Case Studies 269
Barbara Sinclair Can Congress Be Trusted with the Constitution? The Effects of Incentives and Procedures 293
About the Contributors 313
Index 315