Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Publisher
Boston University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
A popular theme among patriots is to celebrate America’s special virtues, which distinguish it radically from European models. Ganesh Sitaraman tells us that political constitutions have generally been designed to prevent socially destabilizing class warfare between the rich, who seek greater domination, and the poor, who would like to redistribute the former’s wealth. America’s Constitution is distinctive because it was consciously designed for a society in which the middle class is large enough to preserve social stability. That is why Sitaraman calls it a “middle-class constitution.”
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
Ganesh Sitaraman’s Idealized American History
,
in
98
Boston University Law Review Online
11
(2018).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3557
Comments
From the BU Law Review Online Symposium: Ganesh Sitaraman’s The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution