This book is an in-depth introduction to modes of constitutional interpretation and is designed to be used with a wide variety of approaches to constitutional law. It combines the virutes of an excellent introduction to legal methodology with substantive coverage of constitutional issues. Kaplin focuses on the elemental building blocks of constitutional law — the concepts and the methods — weaving them into an integrated "big picture" of both the law and its application.

"This book, I think, succeeds at what its author set out to do: to provide an introduction that gives students — and others — an excellent sense of constituional law as a whole."
Jefferson Powell, Professor of Law, Duke University

A teacher's manual is available.