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Mar 19 2025 Publication
The Past Is Not a Foreign Country: How a Historical Critique of Originalism Misses That the Past Is Prologue
Federalist Society Review

The Past Is Not a Foreign Country: How a Historical Critique of Originalism Misses That the Past Is Prologue

Stephen B. Presser

A review of Jonathan Gienapp, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (2024) This review is...

Topics: Founding Era & History · Jurisprudence · Philosophy

May 30 2024

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  • Financial Services & E-Commerce
Blog Post

Preventing Fraud on P2P Electronic Payment Networks: What Can We Learn From Montesquieu?

  • Brian C. Johnson

As a former staff member for the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, I spent...

Mar 10 2021 Podcast
The Laws, the Leviathan, & the Prince | The Philosophers Behind the Founders
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The Laws, the Leviathan, & the Prince | The Philosophers Behind the Founders

Paul Carrese, Michael P. Zuckert

Who are some of the other philosophers behind the founders that didn’t make it into...

Topics: Constitution · Federalist Society · Founding Era & History · Philosophy

Feb 24 2021 Podcast
Montesquieu’s Constitution | The Philosophers Behind the Founders
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Montesquieu’s Constitution | The Philosophers Behind the Founders

Paul Carrese, Michael P. Zuckert

Who was Baron de Montesquieu and which of his ideas made it into America’s founding...

Topics: Constitution · Federalist Society · Founding Era & History

Feb 10 2021 Podcast
Locke & the Right to Revolution | The Philosophers Behind the Founders
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Locke & the Right to Revolution | The Philosophers Behind the Founders

Michael P. Zuckert, Paul Carrese

What radical idea from John Locke inspired educated colonists to revolt against their king? In...

Topics: Constitution · Federalist Society · Founding Era & History · Philosophy

Jan 28 2021 Video
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Locke & Montesquieu: The Philosophers Behind the Founders

Paul Carrese, Eric R. Claeys, Paul Rahe, Michael P. Zuckert

Where did the founding ideas of Washington, Madison, and Jefferson find their origins? How did...

Topics: Founding Era & History · Philosophy · Politics

Jan 27 2021 Podcast
America’s Tag Team Philosophers | The Philosophers Behind the Founders
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America’s Tag Team Philosophers | The Philosophers Behind the Founders

Michael P. Zuckert, Paul Carrese

Who were the two most important philosophers behind the founders? In the episode of our...

Topics: Constitution · Federalist Society · Founding Era & History · Philosophy

Oct 1 2020 Publication
The Accidental Defender of the Constitution
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The Accidental Defender of the Constitution

Andrew McCarthy

A Review of Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, by John Yoo,...

Topics: Constitution · Separation of Powers

Sponsors: Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group

Oct 24 2019 Publication
The Future of the Federal Judiciary
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The Future of the Federal Judiciary

Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain

Note from the Editor:  The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public...

Topics: Constitution · Federal Courts · Separation of Powers · Federalism & Separation of Powers

Sponsors: Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group

Feb 25 2019 Publication
The Tenacity of Transformation Theory, and Why Constitutional History Deserves Better
Federalist Society Review

The Tenacity of Transformation Theory, and Why Constitutional History Deserves Better

Stephen B. Presser

A review of The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era, by...

Topics: Constitution · Founding Era & History · Federalism & Separation of Powers

Sponsors: Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group

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