Sandefur has posted the first criticism of Amar's new book on the Constitution and does an excellent job of handling Amar's far too expansive view of the commerce clause. While all four Positive Liberty contributors are big fans of Amar's scholarship, this is one area of his book that really jumped out at all of us as being inaccurate. I'm reading the section on the reconstruction amendments currently and will probably write something about that issue soon.
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I plan to spend a good chunk of my weekend reading two new books that have recently come into my possession. And the best part is that I didn't have to pay for either of them - the only thing cooler than books are free books.
Timothy Sandefur has the first in what will be a series of posts by all of us at Positive Liberty about Akhil Amar's new book, America's Constitution: A Biography.
I have written extensively in the past about the 14th amendment and the doctrine of incorporation.
Jason Kuznicki reminds us yet again why he is one of the clearest thinkers and best writers in the blogosphere with this post using Akhil Amar's book as a jumping off point to discuss