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The Constitution, Taste, and “Violence of Factions”  

Robert Athearn and Sanford Levinson ▪ Spring 1989

James Madison, who understood democracy better than most then or since, would have been perplexed by Sanford Levinson’s piece in the summer issue that treated interpretations of the Constitution as mere matters of “taste.” Madison was quite sure what he …



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