A Constitution in Full: Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty

by Peter Augustine Lawler and Richard M. Reinsch II

Book Overview

When political debates devolve, as they often do these days, into a contest between big-government progressivism and natural rights individualism, Americans tend to appeal to the "self-evident" truths inscribed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But Peter Lawler and Richard Reinsch remind us that these truths understood in the abstract are untethered from a prior, unwritten constitution presupposed by the Framers--one found in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700627812
• ISBN13: 9780700627813
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"