Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fidelity to text and principle / Jack M. Balkin -- Democratic constitutionalism / Robert C. Post and Reva B. Siegel -- The minimalist Constitution / Cass R. Sunstein -- Economic power and the Constitution / Frank Michelman -- Social and economic rights in the American grain : reclaiming constitutional political economy / William E. Forbath -- State action in 2020 / Mark Tushnet -- The missing jurisprudence of the legislated Constitution / Robin West -- Remembering how to do equality / Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel -- The citizenship agenda / Bruce Ackerman -- National citizenship and the promise of equal educational opportunity / Goodwin Liu -- Terms of belonging / Rachel F. Moran -- Hopeless constitutionalism, hopeful pragmatism / Richard T. Ford -- Voting rights and the third reconstruction / Pamela S. Karlan -- Political organization and the future of democracy / Larry Kramer -- A progressive perspective on freedom of speech / Robert C. Post -- Information, structures, and the Constitution of American society / Yochai Benkler -- The Constitution in the national surveillance state / Jack M. Balkin -- The progressive past / Tracey L. Meares -- The framers' church-state problem--and ours / Noah Feldman -- Progressives, the religion clauses, and the limits of secularism / William P. Marshall -- A liberal vision of U.S. family law in 2020 / William N. Eskridge, Jr. -- A progressive reproductive rights agenda for 2020 / Dawn E. Johnsen -- What's federalism for? / Judith Resnik -- Progressive constitutionalism and transnational legal discourse / Vicki C. Jackson -- "Strategies of the weak" : thinking globally and acting locally toward a progressive constitutional vision / David Cole -- America and the world / Harold Hongju Koh.