Akhil Reed Amar’s “The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840” is an ambitious and comprehensive exploration of the political and intellectual debates that shaped the formation of the United States Constitution and the early years of the republic. Amar, a renowned constitutional scholar, traces the “constitutional conversation” of the American people from the … Continue reading The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840