Articles, notes, and symposia pieces published in CLR’s print volumes.
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Response to Professor Blight’s Frederick Douglass and the Two Constitutions: Proslavery and Antislavery
In his essay Frederick Douglass and the Two Constitutions, Professor David Blight explores the constitutional thought of the nineteenth century’s great human rights advocate, statesman, and orator, Frederick Douglass. How should we understand, he asks, Douglass’s arrival at a natural rights interpretation of the 1787 Constitution?