I'm pleased to denote that my novel book (The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights Became the Bill of Rights) volition travel published past times Oxford University Press inwards December. I'll travel posting close to a greater extent than or less aspects of the mass occasionally betwixt instantly as well as then.
One topic inwards the mass is how presidents speak over as well as empathise the Bill of Rights. The origin president to invoke that text was James Buchanan (in 1860), as well as the instant was William McKinley (in 1900). Since the 1920s, every President has mentioned the Bill of Rights at to the lowest degree once. Some, such equally FDR as well as Harry Truman, relied heavily on the Bill of Rights to justify the drive of the day, such equally fighting communism or expanding the welfare state. Others summoned that term of fine art to defend civil liberties inwards times of crisis or to articulate a detail constitutional vision, most notably Bush 41 on the 200th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights inwards 1991.
How close the electrical flow President? As nosotros approach the 100-day score of his Administration, he has non referred to the Bill of Rights at all. How odd is that? The final president who did non speak close the Bill of Rights during his origin hundred days was Gerald Ford. (Perhaps nosotros should cutting him to a greater extent than or less slack because the presidency was all of a abrupt dropped into his lap, but peradventure not.) Is at that spot whatever significance to Trump's omission of that language? Maybe not, but I intend it says something close his priorities.
Of course, past times pointing this quiet out, I convey in all probability hastened the President's origin Bill of Rights reference. (He's got an NRA oral communication coming upward on Friday--there's all the same fourth dimension to larn into nether the wire.)
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