The question posed by the title of this book raises a further question, as the authors are well aware. If the Constitution is indeed dead, why does this matter? American conservatives have in past days been accused of "Constitution worship":

Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President, by Thomas L. Krannawitter

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10/01/2008 David Gordon

When I reached page 222 of Vindicating Lincoln, I almost threw the book across the room. There I read, "First, the latest iterations of European philosophy during the antebellum period

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