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Cover: President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first fireside chat, on the Emergency Banking Act, on March 12, 1933 (National Archives and Records Administration NAID 6728517). See the article on FDR and democracy on page 89. |
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ContentsTitle Page
Editor’s Note
— Benjamin GutermanRoger R. Trask Lecture
Guardians of History at the Library of Congress
— John Y. Cole
ARTICLES
“The Duty of Government”: The Politics of the Domestic Postal Money Order, 1837–1911
— Christopher W. Shaw
— Kathleen S. Sullivan
— Jake Kobrick
“A living force”: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Vision of American Democracy
— Iwan Morgan
— Colin Jay Williams
INTERVIEW
An Interview with Michael Willrich
— Benjamin Guterman
Law & Constitution
Prohibition, The Constitution, and States’ Rights
by Sean Beienburg– Introduction by Robinson Woodward-Burns, Howard University
– Review by Ken I. Kersch, Boston College
– Review by Susan McWilliams Barndt, Pomona College
– Review by Review by Emily Pears, Claremont McKenna College
– Review by George Thomas, Claremont McKenna College
– Author’s Response by Sean Beienburg, Arizona State University
– Terri Diane Halperin
- Timothy Messer-Kruse, “The Carried-Off and the Constitution: How British Harboring of Fugitives from American Slavery Led to the Constitution of 1787”
- Kevin Arlyck, “The Executive Branch and the Origins of Judicial Independence”
– Reid Arno
- Norrinda Brown, “Black Liberty in Emergency”
- Christopher S. Havasy, Joshua C. Macey, Brian Richardson, “Against Political Theory in Constitutional Interpretation”
- Carla LaRoche, “Black Women and Voter Suppression”
– Benjamin Guterman
- Kate Andrias, “Constitutional Clash: Labor, Capital, and Democracy”
– Amelia Flood
- Amy McMeeking, “Citizenship, Self-Determination, and Cultural Preservation in American Samoa”
– Lisa Parshall
- William M. Carter Jr., “The Second Founding and Self-Incrimination”
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ISSN 2163-8144 (print)
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