Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on David Schwartz’s new book, The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall and the 200-Year Odyssey of McCulloch v. Maryland (Oxford University Press, 2019).
1. John Mikhail, Introduction to the Symposium on David Schwartz, The Spirit of the Constitution
2. Richard Primus, Marshaling McCulloch
3. Mark R. Killenbeck, Accidents of History?
4. Franita Tolson, What is "Appropriate" Legislation?: McCulloch v. Maryland and the Redundancy of the Reconstruction Amendments
5. Kurt Lash, McCulloch v. Madison: John Marshall’s Effort to Bury Madisonian Federalism
6. Sandy Levinson, Does Importance Equal Greatness? Reflections on John Marshall and McCulloch v. Maryland
7. Victoria Nourse, McCulloch v. Maryland: Not Only Right, But Inevitable
8. Mark Graber, McCulloch and Fundamental Rights Regimes
9. John Mikhail, McCulloch, Slavery, and the Sweeping Clause
10. David Schwartz, McCulloch’s “Perpetually Arising” Questions
11. David Schwartz, Burying McCulloch?