James Wilson, later a Supreme Court justice, signed the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. He presaged Lincoln by insisting the former owed much to the latter.
George Thomas
George Thomas is the Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions at Claremont McKenna College and the author, most recently, of The (Un)Written Constitution.
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America’s Illiberal Internationalism
The Republican Party’s turn against liberal internationalism is not a passing Trump aberration but a reversion to long-standing illiberalism on the American right.
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The Supreme Court’s Immunity-to-Impunity Pipeline
Grievance dressed as law, history warped into license, today’s Court is not checking Trump’s authoritarianism—it’s codifying it.
