{"title":"Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle. Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives. New York: New York University Press, 2021. Pp. 416. $99.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).","authors":"M. Hindman","doi":"10.1086/719259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41928,"journal":{"name":"American Political Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45652259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
State constitutions serve not merely as institutional design for and restrictions on state government; they also declare and teach fundamental principles. One such principle, America’s existence as a federalist system, appears in almost one in four state constitutions today in the form of what one could describe as a proto–Tenth Amendment, declaring it to be the right of the state to regulate its internal affairs either exclusively or unless delegated. After consulting every state constitution in history, this research note assembles a comprehensive database of the language and presence of these provisions, including histories of the two states’ decisions to weaken such language. This note will briefly argue that such provisions are not simply a vestigial artifact of a preconstitutional age, or, alternatively, of an anticonstitutional protest against Reconstruction, but occur throughout the duration of American political development and appear in the North and South, progressive and conservative states.
{"title":"Teaching Federalism: State Sovereignty Declarations in State Constitutions","authors":"Sean Beienburg","doi":"10.1086/719195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719195","url":null,"abstract":"State constitutions serve not merely as institutional design for and restrictions on state government; they also declare and teach fundamental principles. One such principle, America’s existence as a federalist system, appears in almost one in four state constitutions today in the form of what one could describe as a proto–Tenth Amendment, declaring it to be the right of the state to regulate its internal affairs either exclusively or unless delegated. After consulting every state constitution in history, this research note assembles a comprehensive database of the language and presence of these provisions, including histories of the two states’ decisions to weaken such language. This note will briefly argue that such provisions are not simply a vestigial artifact of a preconstitutional age, or, alternatively, of an anticonstitutional protest against Reconstruction, but occur throughout the duration of American political development and appear in the North and South, progressive and conservative states.","PeriodicalId":41928,"journal":{"name":"American Political Thought","volume":"11 1","pages":"232 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45108514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In a new book, Jonathan Rauch argues for a spirited defense of the “Constitution of Knowledge.” His comparison of the US Constitution to a national intellectual community resembles Michael Polanyi’s metaphor of a “republic of science.” But the surprising thing about Polanyi’s evocation of a republic was precisely its embrace of science’s irrationalities, not an assertion that republics and scientific communities were alike in the pursuit of truth. First amendment scholar Donald Alexander Downs’s new book offers a vision of intellectual community that more effectively reconciles the irrational to the pursuit of truth, and as such perhaps a more workable framework for accommodating the extremes of our age.
乔纳森·劳赫（Jonathan Rauch）在一本新书中为“知识宪法”辩护。他将美国宪法比作一个国家知识界，这与迈克尔·波兰尼（Michael Polanyi）对“科学共和国”的比喻相似。但波兰尼对共和国的唤起令人惊讶的是，它恰恰拥抱了科学的非理性，并不是说共和国和科学界在追求真理方面是一样的。第一修正案学者唐纳德·亚历山大·唐斯（Donald Alexander Downs）的新书提供了一个知识界的愿景，它更有效地将非理性与追求真理相调和，因此，也许是一个更可行的框架，可以适应我们这个时代的极端。
{"title":"The Republic of Science, the Constitution of Knowledge, and the Besieged University","authors":"D. Klinghard","doi":"10.1086/719358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719358","url":null,"abstract":"In a new book, Jonathan Rauch argues for a spirited defense of the “Constitution of Knowledge.” His comparison of the US Constitution to a national intellectual community resembles Michael Polanyi’s metaphor of a “republic of science.” But the surprising thing about Polanyi’s evocation of a republic was precisely its embrace of science’s irrationalities, not an assertion that republics and scientific communities were alike in the pursuit of truth. First amendment scholar Donald Alexander Downs’s new book offers a vision of intellectual community that more effectively reconciles the irrational to the pursuit of truth, and as such perhaps a more workable framework for accommodating the extremes of our age.","PeriodicalId":41928,"journal":{"name":"American Political Thought","volume":"11 1","pages":"264 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48278142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peter S. Canellos. The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021. Pp. 624. $32.50 (cloth); $17.00 (paper).","authors":"Stuart A. Streichler","doi":"10.1086/719257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719257","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41928,"journal":{"name":"American Political Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43527217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kevin J. Burns. William Howard Taft’s Constitutional Progressivism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021. Pp. 248. $37.50 (cloth).","authors":"B. Taylor","doi":"10.1086/719258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41928,"journal":{"name":"American Political Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48586750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In his 1764 tract The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved James Otis provides an argument for colonial rights that depends in part on his view that the Glorious Revolution constituted a dissolution and reestablishment of the whole imperial constitution, a reestablishment in which all subjects of the British Empire participated. Scholars have long questioned the historical validity of Otis’s claim, arguing that he misunderstood the true nature and scope of the Glorious Revolution. His account, it is asserted, contradicts the abdication story popularized in England and lacks any real historical evidence in support of his notion that the Glorious Revolution involved empire-wide participation. This article argues that an in-depth study of the Glorious Revolution in America validates the historical basis of Otis’s claims about the rights of colonists and the nature of the imperial constitution.
{"title":"James Otis and the Glorious Revolution in America","authors":"Matthew Reising","doi":"10.1086/719262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719262","url":null,"abstract":"In his 1764 tract The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved James Otis provides an argument for colonial rights that depends in part on his view that the Glorious Revolution constituted a dissolution and reestablishment of the whole imperial constitution, a reestablishment in which all subjects of the British Empire participated. Scholars have long questioned the historical validity of Otis’s claim, arguing that he misunderstood the true nature and scope of the Glorious Revolution. His account, it is asserted, contradicts the abdication story popularized in England and lacks any real historical evidence in support of his notion that the Glorious Revolution involved empire-wide participation. This article argues that an in-depth study of the Glorious Revolution in America validates the historical basis of Otis’s claims about the rights of colonists and the nature of the imperial constitution.","PeriodicalId":41928,"journal":{"name":"American Political Thought","volume":"11 1","pages":"161 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48208480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brent Ryan Bellamy. Remainders of the American Century: Post-apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. $80.00 cloth.","authors":"Claire P. Curtis","doi":"10.1086/719264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719264","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41928,"journal":{"name":"American Political Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48284373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sarah Burns. The Politics of War Powers: The Theory and History of Presidential Unilateralism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. Pp. 328. $30.00 (cloth).","authors":"D. Bridge","doi":"10.1086/719261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719261","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41928,"journal":{"name":"American Political Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44360384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patricia Sullivan. Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. xxi+491. $39.95 (cloth).","authors":"R. Smith","doi":"10.1086/719265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719265","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41928,"journal":{"name":"American Political Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43915025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noah Feldman’s new book on Abraham Lincoln’s constitutionalism accomplishes the considerable feat of saying something new about its subject. Feldman argues that Lincoln presided over constitutional fracture, the result of which was a salutary shift from the “compromise Constitution,” which made its peace with enslavement for the sake of union, to the “moral Constitution,” which is rooted in a substantial moral aspiration. Yet compromise is more than a means of resolving disputes. Rooted in humility, compromise is itself a moral ideal. During times of ordinary politics, the compromise and moral Constitutions often converge. It is unclear whether Feldman’s Lincoln, a theorist of constitutional crisis, can guide us in situations less extreme than civil war.
{"title":"Lincoln and the Moral Dimension of Compromise","authors":"G. Weiner","doi":"10.1086/719356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719356","url":null,"abstract":"Noah Feldman’s new book on Abraham Lincoln’s constitutionalism accomplishes the considerable feat of saying something new about its subject. Feldman argues that Lincoln presided over constitutional fracture, the result of which was a salutary shift from the “compromise Constitution,” which made its peace with enslavement for the sake of union, to the “moral Constitution,” which is rooted in a substantial moral aspiration. Yet compromise is more than a means of resolving disputes. Rooted in humility, compromise is itself a moral ideal. During times of ordinary politics, the compromise and moral Constitutions often converge. It is unclear whether Feldman’s Lincoln, a theorist of constitutional crisis, can guide us in situations less extreme than civil war.","PeriodicalId":41928,"journal":{"name":"American Political Thought","volume":"11 1","pages":"253 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43294017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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