Politics as War: A Conversation with David Davenport
Why We Need Hume’s Wisdom on Factions
Trump and the Norm of Presidential Dignity
The Ratification-Era Understanding of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors”
Post-Modern Federalism: SALT That Away
The Kennedy Succession
Presidential Rhetoric and the Challenge to American Constitutionalism: A Conversation with Jeffrey Tulis
The Kaleidoscopic Joys of State Constitutionalism
In addition to requiring instruction in US government and politics, Texas law requires undergraduates at state-sponsored colleges and universities to take a course “which includes consideration of the . . . constitutions of the states, with special emphasis on that of Texas.” I am pretty sure part of the department’s deliberation at Texas A&M University in favor of hiring me those many years ago touched on the fact that the statistical portion of my dissertation drew on a unique state-level data set that I developed. The main point of interest would not be the uniqueness of the data set, but rather that I dipped into state legislative records. That thin reed was sufficient to justify my habitual assignment to teach the state-mandated course in state government, a course most of the faculty in the department preferred to avoid.
Publius’ Conservative Values
Late last month, constitutionalists marked the publication 230 years ago of Federalist 1 with reveries about Publius’ call for Americans to rise to the occasion and show the world that governments could be founded on “reflection and choice” rather than “accident and force.”
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