Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Summer Reading List Bleg: Constitutional History
I am trying to bone up (i.e., learn) as much as I can about constitutional history over the summer (and thereafter), and am constructing an aspirational, impossibly long, reading list for myself. I am trying to be worthy of this absolutely fabulous new text-book, which I am planning to use next spring.
While the subject is not related to CST proper, I'd be grateful for your suggestions in the comments about excellent books on the subject (and if there is a component of intersection with CST, even better). I am looking not so much for constitutional theory per se as for constitutional history with a distinctively legal (doctrinal or theoretical) valence. For example, first on my list is Akhil Amar's America's Constitution: A Biography.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/05/summer-reading-list-bleg-constitutional-history.html
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Marc,
I am teaching undergraduate con-law in the Fall, and if I could justify the price, THAT would definitely be the book I would use. As it is, I will be designing my own course around The Heritage Guide to Constitutional Law, and it will likely be similar to that book, with the exception that the course will be (naturally) less intense for my poli-sci majors.
--Jonathan