Tag Archives: constitution
Historian Jill Lepore
The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy will host historian and author Jill Lepore on December 3. She will deliver a lecture in the Burns Library at 5 p.m. based on her new book, We the People: A … Continue reading
The Constitutional Bind
The United States Constitution occupies a quasi-mythical status in American political culture, according to Boston College Law Professor Aziz Rana, whose new book argues that this reverence is a 20th-century phenomenon and has led Americans to idolize a flawed document. … Continue reading
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Corporations are People Too
Should corporations be able to claim rights of free speech, religious conscience, and due process? BC Law School Professor Kent Greenfield, an expert in constitutional law, takes on this very question in his new book, Corporations Are People Too (And They Should … Continue reading
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More honors for Bilder, ‘Madison’s Hand’
Founders Professor of Law and Lee Distinguished Scholar Mary Sarah Bilder has been awarded the James Bradford Biography Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic for her book Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention. This is the latest honor … Continue reading
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George Washington Prize finalist
Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Boston College Law School Professor and Lee Distinguished Scholar Mary Sarah Bilder has been named a finalist for the 2016 George Washington Prize. The annual award recognizes the past year’s best written works on the nation’s founding era, … Continue reading
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Madison’s Hand named a “book of the year”
The Legal Theory Blog, by Georgetown Law Professor Lawrence Solum, has named Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by BC Law Professor Mary Sarah Bilder one of its “books of the year,” calling it one of the ten most interesting books … Continue reading
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Lincoln & the 13th Ammendment
This weekend marks the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. In his new book, Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015), Boston College alumnus Christian G. Samito examines how Lincoln’s opposition to amending the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, constitution, History Department
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Panel discussion on Madison’s Hand
There will be a panel discussion on the new book Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Boston College Law School Professor Mary Sarah Bilder on Oct. 27 at 5 p.m. in Barat House, Boston College Law School. Bilder writes primarily in the areas of constitutionalism … Continue reading
Shedding light on a seminal work
James Madison’s Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the account of the U.S. Constitution’s creation, relied upon by generations of historians and other scholars. In her new book, Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention (Harvard University Press, 2015), … Continue reading
Do Guns Make Us Free?
One of the most emotionally charged debates in the United States centers on the Second Amendment and the rights of citizens to bear arms. In his new book, Do Guns Make Us Free?: Democracy and the Armed Society (Yale University … Continue reading
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