A course on constitutional law and civil liberties can be--and is--nothing less than an extended inquiry into the meaning of America. American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes, newly revised by Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, and Gary J. Jacobsohn, is a casebook made for such an inquiry. True to the liberal arts tradition from which it emerges, it goes beyond the facts and rulings of the great cases in American constitutional...