Book

Born Equal

Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920

Akhil Reed Amar

2025

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Book Review

The Centuries-Long Struggle to Make the Constitution Equal for All

The effort to transform the United States’ founding document into a vehicle for egalitarian politics.

by Steven Hahn via The Nation
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on June 9, 2026
Book Review

Who Owns the Founding? Akhil Reed Amar’s "Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution"

Politics keeps refighting the Founding: Amar says liberals inherit originalism, but that tale smooths 19th-century contradictions.

by Ahmed Ahmed via Liberal Currents on February 3, 2026

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