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"The signal virtue of these fascinating travels through the metaphoric and historical life of the secular worship of the Constitution is the challenge . . . to work out the terms of one's own constitutional faith."鈥擬ichael Meltsner, The Nation

"Sanford Levinson is a man of the left who takes patriotism seriously. In Constitutional Faith, he offers a timely meditation on exactly what, if anything, America can stand for."鈥擲tephen Macedo, The New Republic

"[R]ich and pleasingly controversial."鈥擳homas Morawetz, Philadelphia Inquirer

"[Levinson] brilliantly transposes his concern from the overfamiliar problem of how judges should decide cases and how they can be restrained from becoming tyrants to the question of what it means to adhere to a constitution. . . . [The book] is rich and pleasingly conversational."鈥擳homas Morawetz, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"I found Constitutional Faith a profound and profoundly unsettling examination of the paradoxes of Constitutional history. I imagine it will be necessary reading from now on to all those readers, and not only scholars, sensitive to the delicate web of beliefs that gives cohesion to our national life and identity."鈥擡. L. Doctorow

"I finally understand why the Constitution is to America what the Holy Scriptures are to Jews and Christians."鈥擝ill Moyers

"[A] lively, intelligent, timely, and highly original study of American constitutionalism as a form of secular religion. [This book] deserves a wide audience."鈥擱ichard A. Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals