Michael Ramsey’s new book is not likely to become a bestseller. Th e book is probably too scrupulous in its scholarship for those whose interest in these constitutional questions is entangled in political debates of the day. Professor Ramsey, who teaches at San Diego University School of Law, seems to have no larger agenda than establishing the historical truth, as clearly as he can discern it. And truth, whatever its ultimate strength, does not always have a large market....