Pat Sobkowski
@patsobkowski
Political Science Professor at Marquette University. Constitutional history & Administrative Law. Contributor, @liberalcurrents.com Website: SSRN:
Picked this up. I’m anxious to see how it compares to Michael Holt’s volume on the election.
Trump is apparently laying the groundwork for delegitimization of the midterms.
Gaspare Saladino’s copy of Eric Foner’s classic book. Saladino was a student of Merrill Jensen and an editor of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution.
Me agreeing with Adrian Vermeule? Maybe horseshoe theory is real! Lol.
FYI: Rusk says the federal government can’t strip you of your citizenship unless you consent.
Sharing because it’s not too often my wonderful spouse cares about the Supreme Court (she’s smarter than me).
From Barrett's majority: we've progressed since the 19th century and Alito and Thomas think that's a bad thing?? Shocking.
These things are silly, yet I can’t resist taking them. Also my Catholic upbringing is apparently very much with me.
No joke, it arrived today! @rachelshelden.bsky.social Thank you, @sonyabonczek.bsky.social for sending it my way! Can’t wait to dig in.
This was my most recent interaction with him. Seems unobjectionable, but I’ve found that Kurt gets sensitive if challenged.
@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:
@mgraber1.bsky.social, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
Sean Wilentz, No Property in Man Wilentz argues that the Constitution was antislavery because the framers did not recognize “property in man.”
Don Fehrenbacher, The Slaveholding Republic Fehrenbacher argues that the Constitution itself was more or less agnostic on slavery. But the federal government allowed the institution to survive, both domestically and internationally.