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The Constitution and the annexation of Texas

I. INTRODUCTION I. INTRODUCTION The annexation of Texas was by any standard a pivotal moment in the political history of the United States. The...
Constitutional Commentary, 12/22/06 by Earl M. Maltz · More from publication
Radical politics and constitutional theory: Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan and the problem of reconstruction

Congressional Republicans faced a variety of conflicting pressures during the Reconstruction era. Republicans generally were committed both to...
Michigan Historical Review, 03/22/06 by Earl M. Maltz · More from publication
Piling on Jefferson

"Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power, by Garry Wills (Houghton Mifflin, 274 pp., $25) "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave...
National Review, 12/22/03 by Earl M. Maltz · More from publication
The Fourteenth Amendment and Native American citizenship

Studies of the federal government's treatment of racial discrimination during the immediate post-Civil War era have dealt almost exclusively with...
Constitutional Commentary, 12/22/00 by Earl M. Maltz · More from publication
Originalism and the desegregation decisions - response to Professor McConnell

The Brown v. Board of Education cannot be seen as consistent with originalist theory because debates over school segregation did not occur until...
Constitutional Commentary, 12/22/96 by Earl M. Maltz · More from publication

The Constitution and the annexation of Texas