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Mary Sarah Bilder

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Madison’s Notes Don’t Mean What Everyone Says They Mean

The Founding Father’s account of the Constitutional Convention includes a famous conversation about causes for impeachment.

by Mary Sarah Bilder via The Atlantic on December 22, 2019

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Luther Martin

For Constitution Day, Let's Toast the Losers of the Convention

Anti-federalist Luther Martin's agenda failed at the Constitutional Convention, but his criticisms of the Founders may still resonate with us today.

by Richard Hall via HNN on September 19, 2021

The Late Murray Rothbard Takes on the Constitution

A lost volume of American history finds the light of day.

by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel via Reason on April 20, 2020

Painting by Titus Kaphar entitled "Page 4 of Jefferson’s ‘Farm Book"

How Proslavery Was the Constitution?

A review of a book by Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man," which argues that the document is full of anti-slavery language.

by Nicholas Guyatt via New York Review of Books on June 2, 2019

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