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“Elegant, insightful, magisterial: Adrian Vermeule has written an instant classic of scholarship, exposing the poverty of today’s prevailing legal theories, left and right, and pointing us to a better alternative – one as vibrant and radical as the Western tradition.”

Sohrab Ahmari, author of The Unbroken Thread and From Fire, by Water

“You are holding that rarest of books, one that will change minds, change the terms of debate, and change the future. Adrian Vermeule has written the most important and original book on constitutional theory for this generation. Future scholars, lawyers, and citizens will look back at this book for having sounded the death knell of the seemingly unassailable camps of conservative ‘originalism’ and progressive ‘living constitutionalism,’ revealing them to be exhausted sides of the same devalued liberal coin. More importantly, this book charts a new and better path – a common good constitutionalism grounded in the classical tradition but repurposed for the revitalization of a declining but redeemable republic.”

Patrick J. Deneen, University of Notre Dame, author of Why Liberalism Failed

“This is the most important book of American constitutional theory in many decades. Adrian Vermeule unearths the entirely forgotten classical legal tradition – a mix of Roman law, canon law, and civil law – which dominated judicial thinking from the founding until positivism began to consume constitutional law in the early twentieth century. He exposes the dominant originalist paradigm as an impoverished Johnny-come-lately to the constitutional scene. And he powerfully demonstrates how the classical legal tradition’s central idea – promotion of the common good – can inform contemporary public law thinking to promote community flourishing, both domestically and globally. Common Good Constitutionalism is a bolt from the blue that challenges conservative and progressive constitutional law paradigms alike. It is destined to infuriate, and to reorient.”

Jack Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University

“This bold and provocative book challenges the views on constitutional interpretation of both US conservatives and liberals, and reframes the debate by focusing on a substantive concept: the common good. With his characteristic originality and ability to weave the insights of different disciplines, Vermeule puts forward a thought-provoking account of the common good and its legal implications, one which will be of relevance well beyond American debates. Even those who disagree with it will have much to learn from this erudite engagement with one of the main concepts in political thought.”

Francisco J. Urbina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile