William D. Blake
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Punctuated Equilibrium, Social Capital, and the Contours of American Constitutional Development
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A 40-year-old person living today would remember one amendment during the course of her lifetime—the 27th Amendment, which, despite being...
The Social Foundations of Constitutional Innovation
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Social capital studies emerged in political science 20 years ago to impact the scholarship of political behavior and institutional perfor...
"Destructive of the Whole Fabric": The Jurisprudential Consequences of American Constitutional Architecture
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This paper begins by critiquing originalism as inconsistent with the Founders' desire for the Constitution to be understood as an integra...