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Tuesday, July 04, 2017

Sex and the Constitution

Andrew Koppelman

The Supreme Court has held that the Constitution protects most pornography, abortion rights, and same-sex marriage. That would have astonished the framers, and it would have astonished almost all Americans 100 years ago. How did it happen?

Geoffrey Stone’s Sex and the Constitution is, for the most part, a breezy and fast read. It is packed with entertaining stories and revealing details. It chronicles a major shift in the tectonic plates of constitutional law. It is also important for a second reason: it is a remarkably clear articulation of a very common, crude view of the appropriate relation between politics and religion.

Thus begins my review of the book, just published by The New Rambler Review, here.

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