新刊『現代憲法における南北戦争の起源：奴隷制とアメリカ建国の精神』

The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding, Simon J. Gilhooley, Cambridge University Press, October 29, 2020

This argues that conflicts over slavery and abolition in the early American Republic generated a mode of constitutional interpretation that remains powerful today: the belief that the historical spirit of founding holds authority over the current moment. Author traces how debates around the existence of slavery in the District of Columbia gave rise to the articulation of this constitutional interpretation, which constrained the radical potential of the constitutional text. （引用元）