Andrew Rehfeld is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St Louis where he has been teaching since 2001. He is the recipient of the University of Chicago Century Fellowship and the Mellon Foundation Dissertation-Year Fellowship. The dissertation on which this book is based was nominated for the American Political Science Association's William Anderson Award in 2002 and the APSA Leo Strauss Award (2001). He is the author of articles which have appeared in academic journals such as Studies in American Political Development and books, including the Dictionary of American History. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, Association for Political Theory, The Historical Society, and the Midwest Political Science Association, among others.
Part I. The Concept of Constituency and Legitimate Political
Representation: 1. Introduction: constituency, legitimacy, and political
representation; 2. The concept of constituency; Part II. On the Silence of
the Land: Territorial Constituencies in American History: 3. Justifications
and the use of history; 4. The English and Colonial origins of territorial
constituencies in the United States; 5. Territorial districts at the
American Founding; 6. Territorial representation as an enabler of
democratic values; Part III. Standards and Reform: 7. Territory
reconsidered; 8. On legitimate representation and a default position:
permanent, involuntary, heterogeneous constituencies; 9. The random
constituency; Epilogue: the random constituency 50 years from now.
