Constitutional Ratification without Reason

1. Questioning Ratification
1: Basic concepts
2: Ratification
3: What kind of justification?
4: Why care about ratification?
5: Structure
2. Ratification Beyond (And Before) Constitutions
1: Agency law
2: Ratification in treaty law
3: Labor law & collective bargaining
4: Conclusions
3. The Invention of Constitutional Ratification
1: The Berkshire Constitutionalists
2: The Mechanicks' Union of New York City
3: Ratification by state conventions: Philadelphia
4: Ratification by Convention: Georgia
5: Conclusion
4. Making the Constituent Power Speak
1: The theory of constituent power
2: Finding constituent power justifications
3: Constituent power dispersed
4: Conclusion
5. The Unalienable Right of the Berkshire Constitutionalists
1: Historical context, theoretical context
2: Constituent power rooted in contractualism
3: Constitutional creation & constituent power
4: The Sleeping Sovereign & the Unique Site Justification
5: Conclusion
6. Ignorance and the Constituent Power
1: What kind of choice?
2: Condorcet's prediction
3: Ignorant framers
4: Information shortcuts
5: Educating the people
6: Conclusion
7. Representation Through Accountability
1: Representation justification
2: Ratification's potential role
3: Ratification as accountability mechanism
4: Objections
5: Conclusion
8. Legitimacy Types & Procedures
1: What is legitimacy?
2: Legitimate constitutions
3: Creating legitimacy
4: Pathways to constitutional legitimacy
5: Conclusions
9. Legitimation Device
1: Substantive legitimation
2: Procedural moral legitimation
3: Procedural sociological legitimation
4: Conclusion
10. Conclusion
1: Summary of findings
2: Lessons and questions
3: Context dependent reasons

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