For virtually all of Western legal history, when judges interpreted legal texts, their goal was to identify the intent of the lawmaker. For the past 50 years, however, constitutional theorists have shifted their focus away from the Framers and have instead emphasized either the original public meaning or a host of living, common sense, consequentialist, […]
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Bringing Science to Politics: The Political Philosophy of John Adams
The last thirty years have seen a resurgence of interest in John Adams. From the acclaimed biographies of David McCullough and Joseph Ellis to the works of C. Bradley Thompson, John Paynter, Jonathan Green, Luke Mayville, Sara Georgini, and Ben Peterson focusing on specific aspects of Adams’s political thought and writings, the “Sage of Braintree” […]
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Between Caesar and Christ in Maryland
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