Basic questions about our government, and how it functions, and its legitimacy are in the news daily. The Supreme Court’s latest term came to an end in June -- as they often do -- with a bang, with important decisions on same-sex marriage, the preservation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), housing policy, and the death penalty.  Yet, public opinion data regularly show that Americans don’t understand the Supreme Court, or how it works, or the decisions it makes (e.g., Pew July 2010 poll). There is no more reliable and readable guide for American voters than The Constitution: An Introduction by Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen. This is a lively, well-written, balanced, non-technical introduction to the U.S. Constitution and its history. It gives a lucid history of major Supreme Court cases and constitutional developments of the 19th and 20th centuries, with short vignettes of some of the major...(Read Full Article)