“In this timely and engaging book, James Fleming shows why democracy and judicial recognition of a right to individual autonomy are not antagonistic, as constitutional scholars have long fretted, but necessary complements to one another. Those who would reduce the American Constitution to a set of procedural ground rules for conducting elections, or to a collection of narrow historical compromises, lose sight of the very purpose of constitutionalism. Democracy’s point, Fleming powerfully reminds us, is to facilitate self-government, both in the sense of the polity as a whole, making decisions for the collective good, and in the sense of the individual self, making the most central decisions about how to live his or her own life.”--Michael C. Dorf, Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law
— Michael C. Dorf