Finally — what the Constitution was REALLY supposed to mean (or, why I haven’t been posting much on The Cauldron recently)
One question I often get (that is, I, Rob Natelson, not Jon Caldara, although he may get the question, too) is “Can you recommend a book I that will tell me in simple language what the entire Constitution was originally supposed to mean?”
I haven’t been able to recommend one, so I wrote The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said and Meant. It is now available in e-book form. Hard copy will follow in a few weeks. (Folks at the Independence Institute assisted with production.)
The book surveys in fairly easy language the legal meaning of the entire Constitution as of late 1791, just after adoption of the Bill of Rights.
(Another shameless plug: For those interested a more academic approach, Cambridge University Press will be publishing my co-authored work, The Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause, later this year.)
