October 12, 2015

Images of Liberty

Steven Douglas Smith, University of San Diego School of Law, has published Constitution Day: 'The Image of Liberty' as San Diego Legal Studies Paper 15-196. Here is the abstract.
This Constitution Day talk compares the state of constitutional governance today to that of the Roman Empire, as famously discussed by the historian Edward Gibbon, and discusses alternative strategies that might be contemplated by those who believe that current American governance does not conform to the requirements of the historical Constitution.
Download the essay from SSRN at the link.

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