Wednesday, August 21, 2013

A Republic of Statutes: The New American Constitution

William N. Eskridge, Jr. (Yale Law School) and John Ferejohn (New York University School of Law).  A Republic of Statutes: The New American Constitution (Yale University Press, 2010).

“This breakthrough book marks a decisive turn in American constitutional thought – away from ancestor worship, toward a realistic understanding of how real-world Americans make and remake their fundamental law."
 —Bruce Ackerman, Yale University