Sentences with phrase «as a constitutional historian»

As a constitutional historian I believe an individual right to bear arms exists.

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Historian Perry Miller characterized revival as «the engine of the Republic,» a phenomenon that played a central role in transforming a somewhat loose constitutional federation into a republican union.

For historians of constitutional reform, such ad hocery comes as no surprise.

As neither Taylor nor Fillmore had taken the oath of office on March 4, some historians and Constitutional scholars have argued that neither of them had any legal authority as President in the interim until they diAs neither Taylor nor Fillmore had taken the oath of office on March 4, some historians and Constitutional scholars have argued that neither of them had any legal authority as President in the interim until they dias President in the interim until they did.

In what historians on the panel characterized as a «fatal error,» the convention decided to put its proposed constitutional changes — including the creation of an independent redistricting panel — in a «take - it - or - leave - it» package rejected by a statewide vote.

In The Return of George Washington: 1783 - 1789, Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important — yet almost always overlooked — chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.

To begin, many legal historians and constitutional scholars seem to agree that the equal protection clause, as originally understood, did not prohibit segregation, because integration — including integrated schools — involved a «social» right, not a civil right, and therefore fell outside the ambit of that clause.

While we all know George Washington as our first president and leader of American forces in the Revolutionary War, in The Return of George Washington: 1783 - 1789, Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Edward J. Larson illuminates another key role he played: leading the Constitutional Convention.

Viscount Haldane: Wicked Stepfather of the Canadian Constitution — «Lord Haldane is well - known to historians of Canadian constitutional law as one of the Privy Council judges most responsible for re-shaping the division of powers in the direction of greater provincial power after World War One.