Books
The Constitution and the Migration of Slaves
– The Yale Law Journal 78:2 (December 1968), 198–228; reprinted in Walter Berns, In Defense of Liberal Democracy (Regnery Gateway, 1984).Excerpt: Shortly after the adoption of the Constitution, the South came to see the power granted to Congress to regulate commerce as a major threat to its domestic tranquility, for this… More
How Has the United States Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945?
– Commentary, November 1985.Excerpt: Things were different in America and always had been. Our aristocrats, our Tories, were dispatched in 1776, at the beginning, at the time we became Americans. They went back to… More
Comment on Rowan
– Maryland Law Review 47:1 (1987).Excerpt: I begin by setting the stage for a question. I then ask it. Put yourself in the position of a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. You are an… More
Taking the Constitution Seriously
– Crisis, June 1, 1987.Excerpt: Unlike the first federal judges, whose formal legal education was likely to have been very limited indeed — John Marshall was largely self-educated in the law and John Jay, the… More
The New Pursuit of Happiness
– Public Interest 86 (Winter 1987), 65–76.Excerpt: Landing in New York in May 1831, Gustave de Beaumont was struck by the “busyness” of the place. “It’s a remarkable phenomenon,” he wrote his father, “a great people… More
Commentary
– Rutgers Law Journal 24:3 (Spring 1993), 725–31.Part of a symposium on “Race Relations and the United States Constitution: From Fugitive Slaves to Affirmative Action.”
Revisiting States’ Rights Controversy at the Wrong Time, with Altered History
– Washington Times, October 15, 2000; reprinted in Democracy and the Constitution: Landmarks of Contemporary Political Thought (AEI Press, 2006).Excerpt: Forrest McDonald is a reputable scholar. Early-American historians especially are indebted to him, not only f or his important study of the formation of the republic, and his… More
Lincoln at Two Hundred: Why We Still Read the Sixteenth President
– American Enterprise Institute, 2009.Excerpt: More has been written about Abraham Lincoln than of any other president or, for that matter, any other American; the amount is prodigious: no fewer than 16,000 books and goodness… More
Why America Celebrates Lincoln
– Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2009.Excerpt: Abraham Lincoln did great things, greater than anything done by Woodrow Wilson or Franklin Roosevelt. He freed the slaves and saved the Union, and because he saved the Union he was… More
Essays
The Constitution and the Migration of Slaves
– The Yale Law Journal 78:2 (December 1968), 198–228; reprinted in Walter Berns, In Defense of Liberal Democracy (Regnery Gateway, 1984).Excerpt: Shortly after the adoption of the Constitution, the South came to see the power granted to Congress to regulate commerce as a major threat to its domestic tranquility, for this… More
How Has the United States Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945?
– Commentary, November 1985.Excerpt: Things were different in America and always had been. Our aristocrats, our Tories, were dispatched in 1776, at the beginning, at the time we became Americans. They went back to… More
Comment on Rowan
– Maryland Law Review 47:1 (1987).Excerpt: I begin by setting the stage for a question. I then ask it. Put yourself in the position of a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. You are an… More
Taking the Constitution Seriously
– Crisis, June 1, 1987.Excerpt: Unlike the first federal judges, whose formal legal education was likely to have been very limited indeed — John Marshall was largely self-educated in the law and John Jay, the… More
The New Pursuit of Happiness
– Public Interest 86 (Winter 1987), 65–76.Excerpt: Landing in New York in May 1831, Gustave de Beaumont was struck by the “busyness” of the place. “It’s a remarkable phenomenon,” he wrote his father, “a great people… More
Commentary
– Rutgers Law Journal 24:3 (Spring 1993), 725–31.Part of a symposium on “Race Relations and the United States Constitution: From Fugitive Slaves to Affirmative Action.”
Revisiting States’ Rights Controversy at the Wrong Time, with Altered History
– Washington Times, October 15, 2000; reprinted in Democracy and the Constitution: Landmarks of Contemporary Political Thought (AEI Press, 2006).Excerpt: Forrest McDonald is a reputable scholar. Early-American historians especially are indebted to him, not only f or his important study of the formation of the republic, and his… More
Lincoln at Two Hundred: Why We Still Read the Sixteenth President
– American Enterprise Institute, 2009.Excerpt: More has been written about Abraham Lincoln than of any other president or, for that matter, any other American; the amount is prodigious: no fewer than 16,000 books and goodness… More
Why America Celebrates Lincoln
– Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2009.Excerpt: Abraham Lincoln did great things, greater than anything done by Woodrow Wilson or Franklin Roosevelt. He freed the slaves and saved the Union, and because he saved the Union he was… More
Commentary
The Constitution and the Migration of Slaves
– The Yale Law Journal 78:2 (December 1968), 198–228; reprinted in Walter Berns, In Defense of Liberal Democracy (Regnery Gateway, 1984).Excerpt: Shortly after the adoption of the Constitution, the South came to see the power granted to Congress to regulate commerce as a major threat to its domestic tranquility, for this… More
How Has the United States Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945?
– Commentary, November 1985.Excerpt: Things were different in America and always had been. Our aristocrats, our Tories, were dispatched in 1776, at the beginning, at the time we became Americans. They went back to… More
Comment on Rowan
– Maryland Law Review 47:1 (1987).Excerpt: I begin by setting the stage for a question. I then ask it. Put yourself in the position of a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. You are an… More
Taking the Constitution Seriously
– Crisis, June 1, 1987.Excerpt: Unlike the first federal judges, whose formal legal education was likely to have been very limited indeed — John Marshall was largely self-educated in the law and John Jay, the… More
The New Pursuit of Happiness
– Public Interest 86 (Winter 1987), 65–76.Excerpt: Landing in New York in May 1831, Gustave de Beaumont was struck by the “busyness” of the place. “It’s a remarkable phenomenon,” he wrote his father, “a great people… More
Commentary
– Rutgers Law Journal 24:3 (Spring 1993), 725–31.Part of a symposium on “Race Relations and the United States Constitution: From Fugitive Slaves to Affirmative Action.”
Revisiting States’ Rights Controversy at the Wrong Time, with Altered History
– Washington Times, October 15, 2000; reprinted in Democracy and the Constitution: Landmarks of Contemporary Political Thought (AEI Press, 2006).Excerpt: Forrest McDonald is a reputable scholar. Early-American historians especially are indebted to him, not only f or his important study of the formation of the republic, and his… More
Lincoln at Two Hundred: Why We Still Read the Sixteenth President
– American Enterprise Institute, 2009.Excerpt: More has been written about Abraham Lincoln than of any other president or, for that matter, any other American; the amount is prodigious: no fewer than 16,000 books and goodness… More
Why America Celebrates Lincoln
– Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2009.Excerpt: Abraham Lincoln did great things, greater than anything done by Woodrow Wilson or Franklin Roosevelt. He freed the slaves and saved the Union, and because he saved the Union he was… More
Multimedia
The Constitution and the Migration of Slaves
– The Yale Law Journal 78:2 (December 1968), 198–228; reprinted in Walter Berns, In Defense of Liberal Democracy (Regnery Gateway, 1984).Excerpt: Shortly after the adoption of the Constitution, the South came to see the power granted to Congress to regulate commerce as a major threat to its domestic tranquility, for this… More
How Has the United States Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945?
– Commentary, November 1985.Excerpt: Things were different in America and always had been. Our aristocrats, our Tories, were dispatched in 1776, at the beginning, at the time we became Americans. They went back to… More
Comment on Rowan
– Maryland Law Review 47:1 (1987).Excerpt: I begin by setting the stage for a question. I then ask it. Put yourself in the position of a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. You are an… More
Taking the Constitution Seriously
– Crisis, June 1, 1987.Excerpt: Unlike the first federal judges, whose formal legal education was likely to have been very limited indeed — John Marshall was largely self-educated in the law and John Jay, the… More
The New Pursuit of Happiness
– Public Interest 86 (Winter 1987), 65–76.Excerpt: Landing in New York in May 1831, Gustave de Beaumont was struck by the “busyness” of the place. “It’s a remarkable phenomenon,” he wrote his father, “a great people… More
Commentary
– Rutgers Law Journal 24:3 (Spring 1993), 725–31.Part of a symposium on “Race Relations and the United States Constitution: From Fugitive Slaves to Affirmative Action.”
Revisiting States’ Rights Controversy at the Wrong Time, with Altered History
– Washington Times, October 15, 2000; reprinted in Democracy and the Constitution: Landmarks of Contemporary Political Thought (AEI Press, 2006).Excerpt: Forrest McDonald is a reputable scholar. Early-American historians especially are indebted to him, not only f or his important study of the formation of the republic, and his… More
Lincoln at Two Hundred: Why We Still Read the Sixteenth President
– American Enterprise Institute, 2009.Excerpt: More has been written about Abraham Lincoln than of any other president or, for that matter, any other American; the amount is prodigious: no fewer than 16,000 books and goodness… More
Why America Celebrates Lincoln
– Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2009.Excerpt: Abraham Lincoln did great things, greater than anything done by Woodrow Wilson or Franklin Roosevelt. He freed the slaves and saved the Union, and because he saved the Union he was… More
Teaching
The Constitution and the Migration of Slaves
– The Yale Law Journal 78:2 (December 1968), 198–228; reprinted in Walter Berns, In Defense of Liberal Democracy (Regnery Gateway, 1984).Excerpt: Shortly after the adoption of the Constitution, the South came to see the power granted to Congress to regulate commerce as a major threat to its domestic tranquility, for this… More
How Has the United States Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945?
– Commentary, November 1985.Excerpt: Things were different in America and always had been. Our aristocrats, our Tories, were dispatched in 1776, at the beginning, at the time we became Americans. They went back to… More
Comment on Rowan
– Maryland Law Review 47:1 (1987).Excerpt: I begin by setting the stage for a question. I then ask it. Put yourself in the position of a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. You are an… More
Taking the Constitution Seriously
– Crisis, June 1, 1987.Excerpt: Unlike the first federal judges, whose formal legal education was likely to have been very limited indeed — John Marshall was largely self-educated in the law and John Jay, the… More
The New Pursuit of Happiness
– Public Interest 86 (Winter 1987), 65–76.Excerpt: Landing in New York in May 1831, Gustave de Beaumont was struck by the “busyness” of the place. “It’s a remarkable phenomenon,” he wrote his father, “a great people… More
Commentary
– Rutgers Law Journal 24:3 (Spring 1993), 725–31.Part of a symposium on “Race Relations and the United States Constitution: From Fugitive Slaves to Affirmative Action.”
Revisiting States’ Rights Controversy at the Wrong Time, with Altered History
– Washington Times, October 15, 2000; reprinted in Democracy and the Constitution: Landmarks of Contemporary Political Thought (AEI Press, 2006).Excerpt: Forrest McDonald is a reputable scholar. Early-American historians especially are indebted to him, not only f or his important study of the formation of the republic, and his… More
Lincoln at Two Hundred: Why We Still Read the Sixteenth President
– American Enterprise Institute, 2009.Excerpt: More has been written about Abraham Lincoln than of any other president or, for that matter, any other American; the amount is prodigious: no fewer than 16,000 books and goodness… More
Why America Celebrates Lincoln
– Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2009.Excerpt: Abraham Lincoln did great things, greater than anything done by Woodrow Wilson or Franklin Roosevelt. He freed the slaves and saved the Union, and because he saved the Union he was… More