Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

PART I: Theory, Background, & Methods

Chapter 2. The Organizational Basis of Constitutional Rights Protection
Chapter 3. Existing Evidence
Chapter 4. The Rise of Rights Constitutionalism
Chapter 5. Research Methods

PART II: Individual Rights

Chapter 6. Individual Rights: Speech, Torture, and Movement
Chapter 7. Social Rights: Education and Healthcare
Chapter 8. Support for Constitutional Rights Violations

PART III: Organizational Rights

Chapter 9. Freedom of Religion
Chapter 10. Right to Unionize
Chapter 11. Right to Form Political Parties

PART IV: The Limits of Constitutional Rights

Chapter 12. Conclusion

APPENDIX

A1. Data Sources
A2. Regression Results
A3. Conditional Results: Courts and Democracy

About the Author

Adam Chilton is Professor of Law and Walter Mader Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School.

Mila Versteeg is the Class of 1941 Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and a Carnegie Fellow at the Andrew Carnegie Foundation of New York.