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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 Indep

I am indebted to Professor Kraynak for the generous things he says about my career as teacher and scholar. I have had vague hopes for some such recognition in a distant future, but not in my lifetime. Leo Strauss, who had virtually no recognition in his lifetime except from the circle he created around himself, is having a veritable renaissance, some thirty or more years after his death. I believe that, in the last several years, there may have been more new books about Strauss than about Lincoln (the most written about of all time!).

I am grateful to Michael Zuckert for his kindness in remembering my birthday—something that I am trying hard to forget—but I am still more grateful for the seriousness and competence with which he has subjected my work to analysis and scrutiny.

In this essay relating the political philosophies of Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Jefferson, the author places his thesis in the post modern era to argue that George Washingtons claim of the indissoluble union between virtue & happiness reflected a commitment to eternal rules of order & right. A brief historical discussion of political evolution contextualizes issues of political community in terms of democracy, social contract & majority rule. The status of the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution are related to recent statements by Judge Scalia, & the democratization of the idea of aristocracy. The classical beginnings of the US as stated in George Washingtons inaugural address are related to Aquinas concept of natural law, and are concluded to surpass historicism, relativism, & nihilism as the true American inheritance. J. Harwell