Americans often adopted certain ideas only as a consequence of actions and debate: preconceived ideas did not drive or shape the founding.
Aaron N. Coleman
Spencer Roane’s ardent defense of state sovereignty and Jeffersonian republicanism rub against the traditional story of early nineteenth-century America.
Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution rehabilitates Daniel Webster as a constitutional and political thinker of the first order.
The Federalist remains a fruitful object of study with the potential to enlighten our understanding of its time and our own.
Taylor believed the rhetoric of economic and national greatness—"borrowed from the fallacious European theories" of empire—was deadly to a republic.
Conservatives should recognize that our embrace of the very constitutional vices the Anti-Federalists warned about has made our Republic one in name only.
The debate reveals two incompatible visions of American constitutionalism and ordered liberty that are vital to understand today.