Our Peculiar Security

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The Federalist Papers have been described as the 'most important work in political science that has ever been written, or is likely ever to be written, in the United States.' True enough, which makes it difficult to understand why the Constitution, the subject addressed in those papers, occupies at best a peripheral place in what passes for constitutional scholarship in our day. These essays, all previously unpublished, may help it regain the place it deserves. The issue-the future of constitutional government in the United States-speaks of its own importance. -- Walter Berns, John M. Olin University Professor, Georgetown University . . . splendid essays . . . this book is must reading in the nineties for anyone who genuinely cares about the rule of law. . . . the editors have assembled one of the best and most convincing collections of writing on 'originalism' as the only valid theory of constitutional interpretation, and the republic is in their debt. -- Stephen B. Presser, Northwestern University School of Law This is a wide-ranging collection of essays by a distinguished array of constitutional scholars that will provide students a splendid introduction into the philosophical dimensions of American constitutionalism which is also solidly grounded in the historical realities that form the context for the American Founding. -- Herman Belz, University of Maryland