1. Introduction -- 2. Revolutionary Constitutionalism -- The Six Ingredients of American Revolutionary Constitutionalism -- The Civil War Amendments as an Expression of American Revolutionary Constitutionalism -- French and American Revolutionary and Constitutional Thought Compared -- Popular Sovereignty in French Constitutionalism -- Rights Skepticism and the Positivistic Challenge to German Constitutionalism -- Summary and Concluding Remarks -- 3. The Promise and Betrayal of Italian Revolutionary Constitutionalism: The Southern Italian Emigration -- The Risorgimento as Revolutionary Constitutionalism -- American, French, and Italian Revolutionary and Constitutional Thought Compared -- The Legitimation Crisis of Italian Constitutionalism: The Emigration from Southern Italy -- 4. American Liberal Nationalism and the Italian Emigration -- Racism as a Constitutional Evil -- The Rationalization of Structural Injustice -- The Southern Italian Emigration and American Racism, 1890-1920 -- Italian American Identity and American Racism -- 5. Multicultural Identity and Human Rights.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-257) and index.