Constitutional Theory Goes to Market.

The article discusses the state of constitutional theory from the perspective of higher education and academic freedom. Constitutional theory in the contemporary United States is largely yoked to the fate of the academy. Studies on the nature and improvement of political orders are produced and disseminated largely in universities, colleges and university presses. Constitutional theory is healthy when academic environments are created and maintained in which constitutional theory is a valued enterprise and constitutional theorists are free to explore those aspects of that enterprise thought worthwhile.