Volume 1, Issue 4 – Fall 2023
Articles
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The Soul of a Free Government: The Influence of John Adams’s ‘A Defence on the Constitutional Convention’
By Mary Sarah Bilder. Contrary to the conventional modern view, John Adams’s A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787) was deeply influential on the Constitutional Convention.
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“Not a Lawyer’s Contract:” Reflections on FDR’s Constitution Day Address
By Gerard N. Magliocca. Franklin Roosevelt’s oration marking the sesquicentennial of the Constitution’s proposal is the most profound discussion of our founding document by a modern president.
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The Public Defender Movement in the Age of Mass Incarceration: Georgia’s Experience
By Robert L. Tsai. Focusing on the efforts of the Southern Center for Human Rights, this article offers a grassroots history of the creation of the first statewide public defender in the State of Georgia in 2003.