Latest Edition of Journal of American Constitutional History Now Available

The Journal of American Constitutional History recently published its 15th issue. In the summer edition, read peer-reviewed high-quality scholarship on U.S. constitutional history, such as “Recovering the Lost Pragmatist Promise of Legal Process,” “ ‘Perpetuate the Union, and Redeem the Honor of the Republican Name’: Monarchy, Empire, and James Madison’s Negative on State Laws” and “The Birth of Compact Theory.” The latter is written by UW Law Professor Emeritus David Schwartz, who is also the journal’s editor-in-chief. The article examines the origins of “compact theory,” the view that the Constitution is a compact among sovereign states rather than an act of “We the people of the United States.”