Americans think of their constitution as fixed, Pierson argues, but it is changing deeply as power flows from the states to Washington. A New York lawyer, he examines the Supreme Court, the income tax, the Eighteenth Amendment establishing Prohibition and the Nineteenth granting women the vote, and asks what becomes of an indestructible union of indestructible states.
A sharp contemporary view of the constitutional upheavals of the 1910s, for readers of American law and federalism. Download the free EPUB.