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In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America's constitutional system.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2017

For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable--and they designed governments to prevent class divisions from spilling over into class warfare. The American Constitution is different. Compared to Europe and the ancient world, America was a society of almost unprecedented economic equality, and the founding generation saw this equality as essential for the preservation of America's republic. Over the next two centuries, generations of Americans fought to sustain the economic preconditions for our constitutional system. But today, with economic and political inequality on the rise, Sitaraman says Americans face a choice: Will we accept rising economic inequality and risk oligarchy or will we rebuild the middle class and reclaim our republic?

The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution is a tour de force of history, philosophy, law, and politics. It makes a compelling case that inequality is more than just a moral or economic problem; it threatens the very core of our constitutional system.

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  • Title The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
  • Author Ganesh Sitaraman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, NY
  • Publication date 2017-03
  • ISBN 9780451493910 / 0451493915
  • Weight 1.69 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.7 x 1.3 in (24.13 x 17.02 x 3.30 cm)
  • Category Legal Reference / Law Profession
  • Library of Congress subjects Power (Social sciences), United States - Social conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016026242
  • Dewey Decimal Code 339.220

About the author

GANESH SITARAMAN is Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He has been a longtime advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren, serving as her policy director and senior counsel. Sitaraman has commented on foreign and domestic policy in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, and The Christian Science Monitor and is the author of The Counterinsurgent's Constitution: Law in the Age of Small Wars, which won the 2013 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor on the Harvard Law Review.
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