The ‘American Creed’ and Constitutional Theory

Smith, Rogers M. "The 'American Creed' and Constitutional Theory." Harvard Law Review 95 (May 1982): 1691-1702.

“Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington’s scholarship has been unified by an ongoing concern for the basis of political authority in various political arenas. This concern continues in his latest work, American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony, in which he addresses his largest question yet – the relationship of political thought to political institutions. He responds with an intriguing model of the role of ideas in the American system that may benefit constitutional analysis, but only if we recognize, as Huntington does not, the significant evolution of American principles.”

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