Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "Framers of the Constitution"
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(University of Chicago Law Review, 1987)In seeking to understand and interpret our written Constitution, judges and scholars have often focused on two related issues: how did the founding generation understand the Constitution they created, and to what extent ...
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(Law and Inequality, 1988)There is a tendency in the bicentennial year-and especially this week-to idealize the events of 1787. We tend to presume that the men who wrote the Constitution were near-perfect demigods, who crafted a brilliant and ...