Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6
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And no one can explain this hyper-scholastic debate better than @jgienapp.bsky.social.
@jgienapp.bsky.social wrote a fantastic essay to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Gordon Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The book, along with Bailyn’s “Ideological Origins,” set the terms of debate for the next decades.
Link to the essay in the next post:
America turns 250 in 2026, but how should we understand the Constitution drafted so long ago? Read Constitutional Originalism and History on Process blog: https://ow.ly/aQU650ZcrXY
little league baseball and the battle against originalism!! really looking forward to digging into this.
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This was one of the first books about the American Revolution I read in college. It was like opening an entirely new door and I devoured it like I would a novel.
Deeply saddened to learn of Gordon Wood's passing. Few have had an equal impact on the study of the American Founding, or on my own intellectual development. No book is more responsible for making me a historian of early constitutional history than Wood's *The Creation of the American Republic*.
