This text challenges popular opinions held by many legal scholars by presenting a defence of originalist interpretations of the US Constitution. The author's controversial conclusions expand the debate over the understanding of original intention.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Part 3 Part I: The Founding and Constitutional Interpretation Chapter 4 How to Read and Interpret the Constitution Chapter 5 The Original Meaning of the Due Process Clause Chapter 6 Between Scylla and Charybdis: Powell and Berger on the Framers and Original Intention Part 7 Part II: Twentieth-Century Judicial Power: Practice and Theory Chapter 8 How the Constitution Was Taken Out of Constitutional Law Chapter 9 The Result-Oriented Adjudicator's Guide to Constitutional, Law I: Laurence Tribe and Michael Dorf Chapter 10 Law II: Harry Wellington Chapter 11 Grand Theories and Ambiguous Republican Critique: Mark Tushnet on Contemporary Constitutional Law Chapter 12 Constitutional Interpretation and Precedent Chapter 13 Notes Chapter 14 Index

How to Read the Constitution is the mature reflections of one of America's leading constitutional theorists and, in my view, the pre-eminent defender of an 'originalist' approach to constitutional review by courts. Wolfe is in full bloom.