| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Ch. I | The Figure in the Carpet | 3 |
| Ch. II | From the Frontier to the Court: The Shaping of a Mind | 39 |
| Ch. III | A Jurisprudence of Natural Rights | 51 |
| Ch. IV | The Heavenly World of the New Deal Lawyers | 83 |
| Ch. V | The Puzzle of the Commerce Clause | 119 |
| Ch. VI | Undoing the Discipline of the Constitution: Delegations of Authority and Independent Counsels | 159 |
| Ch. VII | "In This Vast External Realm ... ": The Imperatives of Foreign Policy and the Dissolving of the Constitution | 196 |
| Ch. VIII | Sutherland and the Mysteries of the Law | 242 |
| Index | 293 |