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The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds That Shaped America's Supreme Law
By Tartakovsky, Joseph
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- 9781594039850 9781594039867
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Starred Review on April 1, 2018 | Social Sciences
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia observed that every banana republic has a bill of rights in its constitution. It takes people to give those charters life, as constitutions are mere words without men and women to honor, observe, and apply them. Tartakovsky (James Wilson Fellow in Constitutional Law, Claremont Inst. for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy) looks at the U.S. Constitution through the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
