Claremontista “Lincoln Fellow” Timothy Sandefur–with whom I’ve tangled previously on various issues related to federalism (see Sandefur and Washington and DiLorenzo’s followup; and Sandefur on slavery and the civil war; man, gotta love the treasure trove that the LRC blog has become)–has a short piece in the July 2006 Liberty in which he recommends the book America’s Constitution: A Biography, by the admittedly brilliant but mainstream law professor Akhil Reed Amar. Writes Sandefur: I know of no writer who understands the Constitution–including such subtle matters as divided sovereignty and the legal significance of the preamble–better than Akhil Amar. Given the … Continue reading Humiliated Jeffersonians, or, Constitutional Sentimentalism