A large part of Constitutional Interpretation is devoted to three constitutional cases: Missouri v. Holland, the confirmation hearings of Robert Bork, and the Iran-Contra Affair. The reader is asked to work through these problems using the techniques developed in Constitutional Fate and recapitulated in ConstitutionalInterpretation. Because the people of this country have an important legal role to play in constitutional law, these exercises are meant to teach the legal methods by which constitutional problems are addressed. And because understanding is the product of learning how to do something, these exercises provide an instance of the process I am claiming to be at work. The reader must judge.

SEED: The pedagogical idea that legal reasoning is learned by doing, not by reading theory, could form an essay on active-learning methods in professional education.

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