Beau Breslin
A Constitution for the Living
Imagining How Five Generations of Americans Would Rewrite the Nation's Fundamental Law
Stanford UP, 2021
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What if Americans followed the advice of Thomas Jefferson and periodically rewrote the US Constitution?
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Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine never envisioned Americans living under the original US Constitution for centuries; they fully expected the document to be rewritten every generation or so. In this thought-provoking work that is, in part, historical fiction, academic Beau Breslin asks this question: What if Americans joined the rest of the world in periodically rewriting their constitution? He doesn’t conjure up an alternate reality for American democracy; instead, Breslin fits the new constitutions into the actual arc of the American experiment, raising important insights into US society.
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About the Author
Beau Breslin is a professor of political science at Skidmore College. His previous books include From Words to Worlds and The Communitarian Constitution.
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