Written by one of America's foremost political and legal theorists, Storm Over the Constitution examines the arguments of some of the leading proponents of the doctrine of 'original intent.' According to legal scholars such as Judge Robert Bork, Lino Gralia, Charles Cooper, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a jurisprudence of original intent requires that judges bring no theory to the interpretation of the Constitution. In this brilliant new book, Harry Jaffa illustrates how judges under the influence of this definition of 'original' intent particularly neglect the Declaration of Independence as a guide. Jaffa shows that this definition is, from the point of view of the American Founding, anything but original; moreover, it is openly hostile to the natural-rights theory of those who wrote and ratified the Constitution. The author implores Americans to follow the example set by Abraham Lincoln, who admired the Declaration of Independence more openly, interpreted it more deeply, and implemented it more practically than any other president before or since. Lincoln's achievement fulfilled a tradition of civic understanding and scholarship closer in time and purpose to the founders, and was thus more 'original.'
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Storm Over the Constitution lays out an intellectual banquet. It is an important achievement. (National Review )
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Harry V. Jaffa is Professor of Political Philosophy Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College.
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The debate we need,
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Jaffa takes on today's leading lights of conservative jurisprudence, bringing us even closer to that understanding of the Constitution America must regain if we are to be great again. The founding fathers bequeathed to us a mighty fortune of liberty and virtue. Let's not squander it and leave nothing to posterity.
Jaffa is doing his part. We would be wise to follow his lead.
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