Bibliography

H. Jefferson Powell

Forthcoming

Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force (editor with James B. White) (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming)
William Bradford, Edmund Randolph & William Wirt, in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (Roger K. Newman ed., forthcoming 2008)

Books

Constitutional Conscience: The Moral Dimension of Judicial Decision (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics (University of Chicago Press 2002, rev. ed. 2005)
The President's Authority Over Foreign Affairs: An Essay in Constitutional Interpretation (2002).
William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (orig. ed. 1916)(ed. 2002).
The Constitution and the Attorneys General (1999).
The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism: A Theological Interpretation (1993).
Languages of Power: A Source Book of Early American Constitutional History (1991).

Articles and Essays

A Teacher, 105 Michigan Law Review 1393-95 (2007) (Tribute to Professor J.B. White)
Foreword to Civilizing Authority: Society, State and Church (Patrick McKinley Brennan ed., Lexington Books, 2007)
Constitutional Virtues, 9 Green Bag 2d 379-389 (2006)
For Lash: Who Asks the Right Questions, 63 Washington & Lee Law Review 11-14 (2006) (Tribute to Lewis H. Larue)
Grand Visions in an Age of Conflict, 115 Yale Law Journal 2067-2092 (2006)
The Executive and the Avoidance Canon, 81 Indiana Law Journal 1313 (2006)
Calder v. Bull, and Higher Law, in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 135-36, 329-40 (Kermit L. Hall ed., 2d ed. 2005)
The Constitutional Importance of Books, in Beyond Excellence: Duke Law School Faculty Scholarship 2003, 13-18 (2004)
Reflections on a Conversation, 19 Georgia State University Law Review 931-945 (2004). (Symposium on H. Jefferson Powell, The President's Authority over Foreign Affairs (2002))
The Three Independences, 38 University of Richmond Law Review 603-614 (2004).
Overcoming Democracy: Richard Posner and Bush v. Gore, 17 Journal of Law & Politics 333 (2002).
The Desirability of Politics, 6 Green Bag 2d 279 (2002).
The Right to Self-Government After Bush v. Gore, 7(Duke University School of Law Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 26, December 2001) (with Paul D. Carrington).
William Wirt and the Invention of the Public Lawyer, 4 Green Bag 2d 297 (2001).
Attorney General Taney and the South Carolina Police Bill, 5 Green Bag 2d 75 (2001).
The Earthly Peace of the Liberal Republic, in Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought 73 (Michael W. McConnell, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., & Angela Carmella eds.) (2001).
Tribute to the Honorable Sam J. Ervin, III, 78 N.C. L. Rev. 1709 (2000) (with others).
The Judge, 78 N.C. L. Rev. 1709 (2000).
Convenient Shorthand: The Supreme Court and the Language of State Sovereignty, 71 U. Colo. L. Rev. 645 (2000) (with Benjamin J. Priester).
With Disdain for the Constitutional Craft: The Proposed Victims' Rights Amendment, 78 N.C. L. Rev. 371 (2000) (with Robert P. Mosteller).
The Founders and the President's Authority Over Foreign Affairs, 40 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1471 (1999).
Marshall's Question, 2 Green Bag 2d 367 (1999) (with Walter Dellinger).
Who's Afraid of Thomas Cromwell?, 74 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 393 (1999).
The President's Authority Over Foreign Affairs: An Executive Branch Perspective, 67 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 527 (1999).
The Lawfulness of Romer v. Evans, 77 N.C. L. Rev. 241 (1998).
Laying it on the Line: A Dialogue on Line Item Vetoes and Separation of Powers, 47 Duke L.J. 1171 (1998) (with Jed Rubenfeld).
The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period, 1789-1801, 65 U. Chi. L. Rev. 365 (1998).
Loyalty to the Law: Politics and the Practice of Public Lawyering in the United States, 72 Notre Dame L. Rev. 78 (1996).
The Attorney General's First Separation of Powers Opinion, 13 Const. Comm. 309 (1996) (with Walter Dellinger).
To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation, 40 Am. J. Legal Hist. 377 (1996).
The Supreme Court in the Early Republic, 83 J. Amer. Hist. 1561 (1996).
Enumerated Means and Unlimited Ends, 94 Mich. L. Rev. 651 (1995).
Creation as Apocalyptic: A Homage to William Stringfellow, in Radical Christian and Exemplary Lawyer 31 (Andrew W. McThenia Jr. ed., 1995)
Constitutional Investigations, 72 Tex. L. Rev. 1731 (1994).
Joseph Story, in The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary 435 (Melvin I. Urofsky, ed., 1994).
The Principles of '98: An Essay in Historical Retrieval, 80 Va. L. Rev. 689 (1994).
The Constitutionality of the Bank Bill: The Attorney General's First Constitutional Law Opinions, 44 Duke L.J. 110 (1994) (with Walter Dellinger).
"Cardozo's Foot": The Chancellor's Conscience and Constructive Trusts, Law & Contemp. Probs., Summer 1993, at 7.
The Oldest Question of Constitutional Law, 79 Va L. Rev. 633 (1993).
The Political Grammar of Early Constitutional Law, 73 N.C. L. Rev. 949 (1993).
A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law--1791 and 1991, 79 J. Amer. Hist. 1592 (1993).
Enslaved to Judicial Supremacy?, 106 Harv. L. Rev. 1197 (1993) (reviewing Robert A. Burt, The Constitution in Conflict).
Alan Watson, Joseph Story and the Comity of Errors, 80 J. Amer. Hist 1081 (1993).
As Far as Principles Will Admit: Essays by Martin Diamond, 49 Wm. & Mary Q. (3d Ser.) 184 (1993).
Calder v. Bull, Higher Law, in, The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 114 (Kermit L. Hall ed. 1992).
Transparency, Opacity and Openness in Narrative, 40 J. Legal Educ. 161 (1990).
Social Theory as Exegetical Tool, Forum, Dec. 1989, at 27.
The Uses of State Constitutional History: A Case Note, 54 Alb. L. Rev. 283 (1989).
Rationality of the Common Law, 64 Notre Dame L. Rev. 767 (1989) (reviewing M. Eisenberg, The Nature of the Common Law).
L. Levy, Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution, 46 Wm. & Mary Q. (3d Ser.) 828 (1989).
Reimagining the Marshall Court, 87 Mich. L. Rev. 1527 (1989) (reviewing G. White, The Marshall Court and Cultural Change).
Reviving Republicanism, 98 Yale L.J. 1703 (1988).
The Gospel According to Roberto: A Theological Polemic, 1988 Duke L. J. 1013.
Faith in the Republic: A Francis Lewis Law Center Conversation, 45 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 467 (1988) (with others).
The Ambiguities of Pledging Faith, 29 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 169 (1987).
How the Constitution Structures Government: The Founders' Views, in A Workable Government: The Constitution after 200 Years 13 (Burke Marshall ed. 1987).
The Modern Misunderstanding of Original Intent, 54 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1513 (1987) (reviewing R. Berger, Federalism: The Founders' Design).
Rules for Originalists, 73 Va. L. Rev. 659 (1987).
Book Note, 4 Law & Hist. Rev. 214 (1986) (reviewing P. Hoffer & W. Scott eds., Criminal Proceedings in Colonial Virginia).
Consensus and Objectivity in Early Constitutional Interpretation: An Unproven Thesis, 65 Tex. L. Rev. 859 (1986) (reviewing C. Wolfe, The Rise of Modern Judicial Review).
Constitutional Law as Though the Constitution Mattered, 1986 Duke L.J. 915 (reviewing W. Murphy, et al, American Constitutional Interpretation).
Reaching the Limits of Traditional Constitutional Scholarship, 80 Nw. L. Rev. 1128 (1986) (reviewing L. Tribe, Constitutional Choices).
The Rehnquist Court: A Dissenting Opinion, 25 Iowa Advocate 27 (1986).
Parchment Matters: A Meditation on the Constitution as Text, 71 Iowa L. Rev. 1427 (1986).
Constitutional Law as Though the Constitution Mattered, 1986 Duke L. J. 915.
Parchment Matters: The Constitution as Historical Document, 24 Iowa Advocate 23 (1985/86).
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 94 Yale L. J. 1285 (1985).
Joseph Story's Commentaries on the Constitution: A Belated Review, 94 Yale L.J. 1285 (1985).
The Original Understanding of Original Intent, 98 Harv. L. Rev. 885 (1985), reprinted in A Constitutional Law Anthology (Michael J. Glennon ed., 1997).
The Complete Jeffersonian: Justice Rehnquist and Federalism, 91 Yale L.J. 1317 (1982).

Multimedia

The Contracts Experience, (DVD course materials, 2002) (with John Weistart & Girardeau A. Spann).