Recovering "From the State of Imbecility"1

From: Texas Law Review | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: Whittington, Keith E | Copyright information

Recovering "From the State of Imbecility"1 RIGHTEOUS ANGER AT THE WICKED STATES: THE MEANING OF THE FOUNDERS' CONSTITUTION. By Calvin H. Johnson[dagger] New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 289. $75.00.

At the end of 1936, just after President Franklin Roosevelt's first triumphant reelection and just as he was advising the administration on what would become the Court-packing plan, constitutional historian Edward Corwin published an important lecture on the concept of a...

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