Abstract
The title of Walker's book gives a felicitous summary of the content of the work as a whole. The book is mainly an analysis of contemporary difficulties in constitutional theory which, the author contends, rest upon some foundation in morals; and it proposes a solution to these difficulties purported to be found in the thought of St. Augustine. The chapter titles are, "Normative Impasses in Contemporary Constitutional Theory," "The Moral Anatomy of Contemporary Constitutional Theory," "Augustine's Political Ethics: Skepticism, Ultimacy, and the Good in Politics," "Augustinian Insight and Current Problems in Constitutional Thought," "Augustinian Tensions and the Constitution of Liberalism."