Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: The Paradox of American Civic Illiteracy -- 1. Congress Is Not a Court -- 2. Statutory Interpretation Theories Misunderstand Congress -- 3. A Legislative Decision Theory of Statutory Interpretation -- 4. Petty Textualism, Canons, and Cognitive Bias -- 5. What Is Legislative Intent? Evidence of Context -- 6. The Constitutional Argument for Legislative Evidence -- Epilogue: Courts and Congress as Faithful Agents of Democracy -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index