The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy

Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political and constitutional thought.



Fishkin and Forbath demonstrate that reformers, legislators, and even ...