William Hogeland is the author of The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty (Scribner, 2006) and a chapter on early American insurrections in the forthcoming Blackwell's Companion to American Military History. His essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Review, and elsewhere. He is working on a new book about the founding period.

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Barack Obama on the U.S. Constitution

78 Comments | Posted March 24, 2008 | 11:04 PM (EST)


Voters of many persuasions have viewed Barack Obama as coming from the left. Yet in his March 18 speech, addressing both his relationship to the black activist preacher Jeremiah Wright and the history of slavery and race oppression in the United States, Obama hymned the creation of the U.S. Constitution...

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