42p. Previously published by Rutgers Law Journal“Fallacies of American Constitutionalism” examines the pervasive assumptions in the scholarship of historians, lawyers, and political scientists that impute the central role of the federal Constitution to how Americans understood written constitutions after their Revolution. American struggles to come to grips with the meaning of the sovereignty of the people before and after 1787 reveals very different views about the people as the sovereign from those reflected in the federal Constitution and dispel the notion that our prevailing constitutional view is an unbroken chain stretching back to 1787
In this historical examination of American federalism, Edward A. Purcell Jr. refutes the widely acce...
In this historical examination of American federalism, Edward A. Purcell Jr. refutes the widely acce...
America is a world power, but does it have the strength to understand itself? Is it content, even no...
Fallacies of American Constitutionalism\u27 examines the pervasive assumptions in the scholarship of...
This article will be published in the Rutgers Law Journal (forthcoming).Most scholars of constitutio...
Most scholars of constitutional law and history equate American constitutionalism with the Federal c...
This Article explores the revolutionary period and the early national period of American constitutio...
This Article explores the revolutionary period and the early national period of American constitutio...
Over the past twenty years, constitutional law has taken a decidedly historical turn, both in academ...
Understanding American constitutionalism can be advanced by distinguishing three matrices of its pec...
none1noIn American Sovereigns The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War...
America is a world power, but does it have the strength to understand itself? Is it content, even no...
Courts and commentators have long struggled to reconcile robust federalism doctrines with the text o...
American Sovereigns: The People and Americas Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenge...
Eighteenth-century American politics does more than simply provide us with the U.S. Constitution. Ac...
In this historical examination of American federalism, Edward A. Purcell Jr. refutes the widely acce...
In this historical examination of American federalism, Edward A. Purcell Jr. refutes the widely acce...
America is a world power, but does it have the strength to understand itself? Is it content, even no...
Fallacies of American Constitutionalism\u27 examines the pervasive assumptions in the scholarship of...
This article will be published in the Rutgers Law Journal (forthcoming).Most scholars of constitutio...
Most scholars of constitutional law and history equate American constitutionalism with the Federal c...
This Article explores the revolutionary period and the early national period of American constitutio...
This Article explores the revolutionary period and the early national period of American constitutio...
Over the past twenty years, constitutional law has taken a decidedly historical turn, both in academ...
Understanding American constitutionalism can be advanced by distinguishing three matrices of its pec...
none1noIn American Sovereigns The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War...
America is a world power, but does it have the strength to understand itself? Is it content, even no...
Courts and commentators have long struggled to reconcile robust federalism doctrines with the text o...
American Sovereigns: The People and Americas Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenge...
Eighteenth-century American politics does more than simply provide us with the U.S. Constitution. Ac...
In this historical examination of American federalism, Edward A. Purcell Jr. refutes the widely acce...
In this historical examination of American federalism, Edward A. Purcell Jr. refutes the widely acce...
America is a world power, but does it have the strength to understand itself? Is it content, even no...