About the Book: The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic
Inequality Threatens Our Republic
An original, provocative contribution to the debate over rising economic
inequality that argues that a strong and sizable middle class is in fact
embedded in the very framework of our government and its founding document.
For two thousand years, constitutional republics assumed class divisions a
priori. But as Ganesh Sitaraman reminds us in this exceptionally lucid study,
our Constitution, growing as it did out of a society of almost unprecedented
economic equality, made no provisions to prevent the upper class from seizing
the levers of power, as other constitutions had. Now that