Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Linda Colley's new book, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World (Liveright, 2021).
1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium.
2. Erin F. Delaney, Of Constitutions and Constitutionalism.
3. Gerard Magliocca, The Gun is as Mighty as the Pen.
4. Sandy Levinson: An Essential Book: Linda Colley,on the origins of written constitutionalism.
5. Madhav Khlosla, Locating Constitutions in the Modern World.
6. Harshan Kumarasingham, Constitutional History and the Making of the Modern World.
7. Mark Graber, Of Guns, Ships. Pens, and Liberals.
8. Linda Colley, Linda Colley Responds.