Introduction 1
The Case against Fidelity to Law, for Citizens and for Officials 1
A Roadmap and Some Baselines for Discussion 4
The Multiple Sources of Citizens' Obligations 20
The Relationship between Obligation and Legitimacy 24
1. Against Political Obligation 35
Consent, Fair Play, and Political Participation 35
Natural Duty and Associative Obligation 56
Systemic Stability 94
2. Accommodating Our Plural Obligations 114
Exiting from the Law 117
Permeable Sovereignty and the Religion Clauses 139
The Problem of Illiberal Groups 157
3. Against Interpretive Obligation to the Past 161
The Authority of Constitutional Creators, and Readers 165
Debunking Prior Authority 172
The Proper Role of Fit in Constitutional Interpretation 201
Why My Jeffersonian Position Is neither Anti-Law nor Anti-Constitutionalism 206
4. Against Interpretive Obligation to the Supreme Court 210
The Role of the Supreme Court in Settling Constitutional Issues 212
Interpretive Pluralism 215
Guidelines for Officials in Deciding Whether to Follow the Court 223
The Court's Response to Interpretive Challenge 247
Conclusion 252
Notes 255
Bibliography 303
Acknowledgments 323
Index 327