The Democratic Constitution. By Neal Devins and Louis Fisher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 303p. $72.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

For more than a quarter century, Louis Fisher has been arguing against court-centered approaches to constitutional studies by showing how constitutional law is “shaped both by judicial and nonjudicial forces,” including the actions of “the elected branches, the states, interest groups, and the general public” (p. vii). Neal Devins joined this effort when he and Fisher coauthored Political Dynamics of Constitutional Law (1992, 1996, 2001). With this latest iteration, their basic storyline is still the same, although they have added new case studies and a new normative argument about why constitution law “should work that way” (p. vii).