Andreas Teuber

Andreas Teuber is a professor of philosophy and history of ideas at Brandeis University.

Absent Framers

Andreas Teuber, 31 March 1988

Friend: ‘You have given us a good Constitution.’

Gouverneur Morris: ‘That depends on how it is construed.’

Last year was the year of the bicentennial of the US Constitution. Many celebrations were planned and held, not only in Philadelphia, where the framers had met from May to September in 1787, but in many American cities, large and small. The point of these...

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