Two recent books reveal the hidden richness and complexity of America’s constitutional history: Marc Kruman’s Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution Making in Revolutionary America and William Novak’s The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America. Explicitly revisionist, they show how state constitutions were shaped both by their framers’ guiding principles and by the realities of day-to-day politics.
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Andrew R. Rutten is a former Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University.
| Other Independent Review articles by Andrew R. Rutten | ||
| Fall 2006 | Politics in Time | |
| Fall 2003 | The New Economy (Pre)Dux; or, What History Teaches Us about the Wired World | |
| Summer 2001 | Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution | |
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