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Founding

The Declaration, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the amendments, read closely, with the contested clauses taken seriously.

Founding
The Declaration

The 1776 text, its argument, and the claims it makes about rights.

Founding
The Constitution

Article by article, what the document establishes and withholds.

Founding
The Bill of Rights

The first ten amendments and the ratification bargain behind them.

Founding
The Amendments

Eleven through twenty-seven, and what each one changed.

Founding
Interpretation

Originalism, textualism, living constitutionalism, and how I read the text.

Founding
Contested Clauses

Commerce, Necessary and Proper, General Welfare, and the fights over them.

Founding
Clause Studies

Close readings of particular clauses, taken one at a time.

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Caleb Welsh · Politics & the Founding

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