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American constitutionalism

Larry Alexander (USD): What are Principles, and Do They Exist?; and Constitutional Theories: A Taxonomy and (Implicit) Critique. Mary Ziegler (Florida State): Originalism Talk: A Legal History. Peter Martin Jaworski (Georgetown): Originalism All the Way Down: Or, the Explosion of Progressivism. Richard Bellamy (UCL): Constitutional Democracy. Mila Versteeg (Virginia): Unpopular Constitutionalism. Gillian E. Metzger (Columbia): Administrative Constitutionalism. Emily S. Bremer (ACUS): The Unwritten Administrative Constitution. Akhil Reed Amar on American constitutionalism: Written, unwritten, and living. Moshe Z. Marvit on the most dangerous court in America. Justice Scalia vs. Justice Roberts: Terry Eastland on a dispute among conservatives over the ­administrative state. Grutter's denouement: Ellen D. Katz on three templates from the Roberts Court. Charles C. Turner reviews The Failed Promise of Originalism by Frank B. Cross. Pamela Karlan on the Constitution Without the Court: Protecting Americans' rights is not a job for the judiciary alone. Justin Fox on the business-friendly legislature known as SCOTUS. Clarence Thomas, Liberal: In the strange world of the Supreme Court, sometimes being an archconservative can turn you into a liberal. Mark Joseph Stern on the rudest justice: Why is Samuel Alito so nasty?