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Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty

Paul O. Carrese

A great paradox of America’s constitutional order today is that judges have never been more powerful, yet there has never been more disagreement among both judges and legal scholars...

The Ironies of American Power

Paul O. Carrese

Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan Knopf. 103 pp. $18 In a widely read and discussed essay in the Summer...

States’ Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776–1876

Paul O. Carrese

States’ Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776โ€“1876 by forrest mcdonald university press of kansas, 304 pages, $22.78 Forrest McDonald, the Distinguished Research Professor of History at the...