The Fall 2024 issue of the
Journal of American Constitutional History is
now online.
A Regime of Statutes: Building the Modern President in Gilded Age America (1873-1921)
Andrea Scoseria Katz
At a time when the Supreme Court is turning its sights on the administrative state and enhancing the profile and powers of the president, it is worth recalling that behind our national complex of agencies lies a one-hundred-and-thirty-year regime of statutes, a finely wrought constitutional settlement designed not only to release power, but also to contain it. We upset this balance at our peril.
Sins and Omissions: Slavery and the Bill of RightsRichard PrimusWhy did the Constitution originally contain no bill of rights? One important reason was that the delegates believed that an attempt to compose one might wreck the entire enterprise over the issue of slavery.
Book Review
Conservative Constitutionalism Reconsidered
Dennis J. Wieboldt III
Leading scholars have uniformly overlooked one of the most significant philosophical influences on conservative legal thought in the United States: natural law. With the publication of his
Conservative Thought and American Constitutionalism Since the New Deal, Jonathan O’Neill has made a welcome entry into this historiographical lacuna.
