The Heritage Guide to the Constitution
has just been released this month; it could prove to be an invaluable
guide for rhetoric stage applied history studies in Law. From the
inside flap:
“With the leadership of former Attorney General Edwin Meese, and in
conjunction with the nation’s preeminent think tank——The Heritage
Foundation——The Heritage Guide to the Constitution brings together more
than one hundred of the nation’s best legal experts to provide the
first ever line-by-line examination of the of the complete Constitution
and its contemporary meaning.
“Stressing the original intent of
the Framers as the authoritative standard of constitutional
interpretation, and never straying from the Constitution and the
definitive writings of the Framers——especially the invaluable notes
taken at the Constitutional Convention by James Madison, the widely
recognized analysis in The Federalist Papers, and Supreme Court Justice
Joseph Story’s 1833 classic Commentaries on the Constitution of the
United States——this volume is unique, comprehensive, and authoritative.”