American Citizenship and Constitutionalism in Principle and Practice : University of Oklahoma Press : 9780806175386 : 0806175389 : 30 Jan 2022 : Questions at the very heart of the American experiment?about what the nation is and who its people are?have lately assumed a new, even violent urgency. As the most fundamental aspects of American citizenship and constitutionalism come under ever more powerful pressure, and as the nation's politics increasingly give way to divisive, partisan extremes, this book responds to the critical political challenge of our time: the need to return to some conception of shared principles as a basis for citizenship and a foundation for orderly governance. In various ways and from various perspectives, this volume's authors locate these principles in the American practice of citizenship and constitutionalism. Chapters in the book's first part address critical questions about the nature of U.S. citizenship; subsequent essays propose a rethinking of tradition