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Papers presented at a conference sponsored by Tulane University's Murphy Institute on March 1994 and at a follow-up symposium at the Law and Interpretation Section of the American Association of Law Schools.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Constitutional accident waiting to happen / Akhil Reed Amar -- Parlor games / Philip Bobbitt -- An agenda for constitutional reform / Steven G. Calabresi -- "Clause and effect" : an imagined conversation with Sanford Levinson / Lief Carter -- The one senator, one vote clauses / William N. Eskridge -- Our (almost) perfect Constitution / Daniel A. Farber -- Unnecessary and unintelligible / Mark Graber -- The nominee is--Article V / Stephen M. Griffin -- Natural aristocracy? / Randall Kennedy -- "Neither force nor will" / L.H. Larue -- Presidential elections and constitutional stupidities / Sanford Levinson -- The presidential age requirement and public policy agenda-setting / Matthew D. Michael -- The last centrifugal force / Robert F. Nagel -- Someone should have told Spiro Agnew / Michael Stokes Paulsen -- Old people and good behavior / L.A. Powe -- Divided suffrage / Jeffrey Rosen -- The constitution of fear / Frederick Schauer -- Criminal procedure as the servant of politics / Louis Michael Seidman -- Our unconstitutional senate / Suzanna Sherry -- How to violate the Constitution without really trying : lessons from the repeal of Prohibition to the Balanced budget amendment / Laurence H. Tribe -- The whole thing / Mark Tushnet -- How stupid can a Coasean constitution be? / William N. Eskridge and Sanford Levinson -- Constitutional tragedies and giving refuge to the devil / Larry Alexander -- The meaning of constitutional tragedy / J.M. Balkin -- The tragic case of capital punishment / Gerard V. Bradley -- Constitutional tragedies : the dark side of judgment / Rebecca L. Brown -- Good constitutions and bad choices / Christopher L. Eisgruber and Lawrence G. Sager -- Jocasta undone : constitutional courts in the midst of life and death / Marie A. Failinger -- Constitutional tragedy in dying : or whose tragedy is it anyway? / James E. Fleming -- Dramatic jurisprudence /

Gary Jacobsohn -- Constitutional farce / Pamela S. Karlan and Daniel R. Ortiz -- Constitutional merry-go-round : the first round tragedy, the second round farce / Theodore J. Lowi -- Glamis yes, Cawdor yes--but king of Scotland? / Michael W. McConnell -- Brown v. Board of Education / Earl M. Maltz -- Tragedy and constitutional interpretation : the California Civil Rights Initiative / Robert Post -- The meaning of blacks' fidelity to the Constitution / Dorothy E. Roberts -- Tragedies under the Common Law Constitution / David A. Strauss -- McCulloch v. Maryland / John Yoo -- Antigone and Creon / William N. Eskridge and Sanford Levinson.