By Maeve Glass. Amidst a project to transform land into waterways and cotton into cloth, Federalist elites carefully fashioned a bespoke rule of state protest that could keep New England’s merchant ships and cotton spindles in motion.
By Aziz Rana. Books like The Constitution of the War on Drugs offer one model for how to break the effective monopoly judges enjoy over constitutional politics, by underscoring the narrowness of judicial imagination.
Pozen’s book surfaces hard questions about historical contingency and the scope of the change that might have occurred in a counterfactual world.