Public DiscourseJun 10, 2026

Written Constitutions, Judicial Review, and the Limits of Constitutional Hope 

From the covenants of seventeenth-century England and colonial America to the doctrine of judicial review developed by Madison, Hamilton, and Marshall, the visible institutions of modern constitutionalism owe more to Christian traditions of covenant, jurisdictional pluralism, and Augustinian anthropology than is commonly recognized.

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