American Citizenship and Constitutionalism in Principle and Practice

Steven F. Pittz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and is the author of Recovering the Liberal Spirit: Nietzsche, Individuality, and Spiritual Freedom. Joseph Postell is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. He is the author of Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State's Challenge to Constitutional Government and coeditor of Rediscovering Political Economy and Toward an American Conservatism: Constitutional Conservatism during the Progressive Era.

"In a moment when our society is undergoing a widespread reassessment of fundamental questions of political organization and belonging, the essays in this volume call for unity around shared principles that have developed out of the American practice of citizenship and constitutionalism. Steven F. Pittz and Joseph Postell have brought together a distinguished team of contributors to address these important and timely issues from the unique vantage point of political theory."--Justin B. Dyer, Director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy "Occasioned by the present disorders, Steven F. Pittz and Joseph Postell's American Citizenship and Constitutionalism in Principle and Practice addresses an increasingly heterogeneous country, riven by controversies over justice and belonging, with the gentle suggestion that this new America might yet learn much from its forebears. With impressive breadth and learning, and without anger or zeal, the editors and authors of these wide-ranging essays offer no easy solutions but instead something of greater and more lasting value: an expertly guided survey of the historical landscape of American civic and constitutional thought."--Peter C. Myers, author of Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism