Jan 13, 2013

Sanford Levinson’s New Constitutional Settlement

Book Review
by Kevin Gutzman / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Alexander Hamilton, Chisholm v. Georgia, Constitutional Amendment, Edmund Randolph, Framed, George Washington, Preamble to the Constitution

Sanford Levinson here sets himself the task of examining not what he calls the “Constitution of Conversation,” but what he terms the “Constitution of Settlement.”  He notes that many people devote barrels of ink to proposing meanings that they …