Preface
Introduction
Pragmatism and the democracy project
Pragmatic political history
A foundation on a serbonian bog
Market state and nation state
A judiciary for the market state
Rogue justice
Too much democracy
Judicial review as ideology
Religion and race
Old wine in new bottles
Rewriting history
The great Kansas charade
Free labor and the economics of slavery
Civil War
Disorder in the court
Understanding the party battle
Free speech in the age of the big megaphone.