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To Break the Slave Power: Thaddeus Stevens, Land Confiscation, and the Politics of Reparations by Svabek, Lawrence

“…This article returns to the post–Civil War period to reconstruct Congressman Thaddeus Stevens’s political thought. Stevens argued that incorporating former…”
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Representation on the Periphery: The Past and Future of Nonvoting Members of Congress by Mamet, Elliot

“…Nonvoting representatives, representing American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Washington, DC, inhabit a…”
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James Madison’s Political Science of Religious Liberty by Muñoz, Vincent Phillip

“…In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (2021), Justices Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch called for the reversal of Employment Division v. Smith (1990), the Supreme…”
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Creating a Demagogue: The Political Origins of Daniel Shays’s Erroneous Legacy in American Political History by Zug, Charles U.

“…What are the political consequences of negative political theory concepts such as demagoguery? What happens when they are deployed in a way that brands an…”
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“Two Foundings”: An Unpublished Lecture by John H. Schaar by Miller, Joshua I.

“…This is a reconstruction of John H. Schaar’s first introductory lecture for his course on American political thought taught often at University of California,…”
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“Not Equals but Men”: Du Bois on Social Equality and Self-Conscious Manhood by Rodman, Emma

“…While recent scholarship has argued for the utility of W. E. B. Du Bois’s thought for democratic theory, his career-long emphasis on the problem of social…”
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Peter Wirzbicki. Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 384. $39.95 (cloth) by Taylor, Bob Pepperman

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Carlos Lozada. What Were We Thinking? An Intellectual History of the Trump Era . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020. Pp. 272. $28.00 (cloth) by Buccola, Nicholas

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Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein. The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality . New York: Viking, 2019. Pp. 543. $35.00 (cloth) by Bailey, Jeremy

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Jordan Carson. American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent . Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2020. Pp. 240. $89.95 (cloth) by Williams, Lucy

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“An Affair of History, Law, and Institutions”: William Graham Sumner’s Historical Method and the Responsibility of the Individual by Gilhooley, Simon J.

“…William Graham Sumner is popularly thought of as the Progressive Era’s strongest champion of the unencumbered individual, following Richard Hofstadter’s…”
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Robert Elder. Calhoun: American Heretic . New York: Basic, 2021. Pp. 640. $35.00 (cloth) by Read, James H.

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Brian P. Simpson. A Declaration and Constitution for a Free Society: Making the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution Fully Consistent with the Protection of Individual Rights . Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2021. Pp. xiii + 307. $120.00 (cloth) by Gerber, Scott Douglas

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Jonathan Marks. Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 248. $27.95 (cloth) by Schlosser, Joel

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Against Every General Principle: Prudence in the Constitutional Statesmanship of James Madison by Ashbach, Jonathan

“…The deeply prudential nature of James Madison’s statesmanship has frequently been noted but never sufficiently explored. Prudence, for Madison, meant that an…”
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The French Experiment: Thomas Jefferson and William Short Debate Slavery, 1785–1826 by Rogers, Cara J.

“…In 1785, Thomas Jefferson printed his plan for ending slavery in Virginia: all slaves born after a certain date should be free, and the state should educate…”
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Constitutional Humility: The Contested Meaning of a Judicial Virtue by German, Zachary K., Burton, Robert J.

“…References to the “humility” and “hubris” of judges are common in American political and constitutional discourse, but neither public nor scholarly…”
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Utz McKnight. Frances E. W. Harper: A Call to Conscience . London: Polity, 2020. Pp. 240. $69.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) by Pfeiffer, Kathleen

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Verlan Lewis. Ideas of Power: The Politics of American Party Ideology Development . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 214. $34.99 (paper) by Ross, Robert

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Peter Augustine Lawler and Richard M. Reinsch II. A Constitution in Full: Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty . Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. Pp. 192. $29.95 (cloth) by Knowles, Helen J.

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