Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part I: Devising the Amending Process
1. Antecedents of Article V
2. “An Easy, Regular, and Consitutitonal Way”
3. The First Fruits of Article V: The Bill of Rights
4. Setting the Pattern: The Eleventh and Twelfth, Amendments
Part II: The Amending Process and the Development of the Constitution
5. “Take Care of the Union”
6. Redefining the Union: The Civil War Amendments
7. Democratizing the Constitution: The Progressive Amendments
8. Testing the Limits of Democratization
9. The First Citizen: Adjusting the Presidency
10. Roads Not Taken: Proposed Amendments to the Constitution
11. The Nation the Amending Process Made
12. “With All the Coolness of Philosophers”: Proposals to Rewrite the Constitution
Part III: Implications of the Amending Process
13. Riddles Without Answers: Issues of the Amending Process
14. Amending America
Appendix A: The Constitution of the United States (Literal Text, with Amendments through 1992)
Appendix B: Amendments Proposed by Congress but Not Ratified by the States
Appendix C: Chronology of the Amendments
Notes
Index