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.
Issue 1 – Winter 2023
“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.
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.