Most of the writing about the Constitution that most of us confront most of the time is concerned with what the Constitution means. But, the historian Thomas West accurately observes, few scholars “think it is even worth discussing whether the Founders’ principles are true.”
For an interesting article by West that takes this question seriously, and discusses how two leading conservative Constitutional theorists, Harry Jaffa and Harvey Mansfield, approach it, take a look at this article by West.
