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The Memes That Made Us
The origin story of “one nation, indivisible.”
by
Akhil Reed Amar
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
May 24, 2021
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Context and Consequences
On Akhil Reed Amar’s “The Words That Made Us,” a new history of America’s constitutional conversation.
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Joel Seligman
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 3, 2021
The Electoral College and Slavery
It's easy to get this one wrong.
by
William Hogeland
via
Hogeland's Bad History
on
May 24, 2024
Conservatives Don’t Have a Monopoly on Originalism
The text and historical context of the Constitution provide liberals with ample opportunities to advance their own vision of America.
by
Simon Lazarus
via
The New Republic
on
March 29, 2024
How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy
Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections. What if it were to become the law of the land?
by
Andrew Marantz
via
The New Yorker
on
June 5, 2023
Reversing the Legacy of Slaughter-House
A careful examination of the Privileges or Immunities Clause shows what we lost 150 years ago.
by
Ilan Wurman
via
Law & Liberty
on
April 3, 2023
The Habit America’s Historians Just Can’t Give Up
If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.
by
Matthew E. Stanley
,
Paul M. Renfro
via
Slate
on
January 9, 2023
The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College
The problem of minority rule isn’t Trumpian or temporary; it’s bipartisan and enduring.
by
Corey Robin
via
New York Review of Books
on
February 21, 2020
Slavery, Democracy, and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College
The Electoral College was created to help white Southerners maintain their disproportionate influence in national governance.
by
Christopher F. Petrella
via
Black Perspectives
on
November 14, 2016
