Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Senate and American Democracy
1. Creating Something Exceptional? Power and Purpose in the Design of the Senate
2. Equal Representation: The Perpetual Great Compromise
3. Equal Representation’s Inexorable Clash withPolitical and Racial Equality
4. The Right of the Living Dead: Staggered Terms,Continuing Bodies, and Constitutional MythsSenators Tell Themselves and America
5. The Filibuster: From Southern Citadel to theSixty-Vote Senate
6. "Cooling the Coffee": More Myths Senators TellThemselves, and the Filibuster’s Clash with EffectiveGovernment and the Constitution
7. The Supermajority Senate Curtailed: Nuclear Optionsand Mushroom Clouds of Hypocrisy
Conclusion: Constitutional Repair and Reparations
Notes
Index