Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary Ame

Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied. In "Constituent Moments", Jason Frank explores this dilemma of authorization: the grounding of democratic legitimacy in an elusive notion of the people.