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Monday, July 28, 2025

Balkinization Symposium on Richard Primus, The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power-- Collected Posts

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Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Richard Primus, The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power (Harvard University Press, 2025).

1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium

2. Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus, Enumeration and My Discontent

3. Sandy Levinson, Will Richard Primus Get the Readership He Deserves (and the Country Needs)?

4. Jonathan Gienapp, The Many Meanings of Enumeration

5. William Ewald, Does Anybody Else Suffer from Enumerationism?

6. William Baude, Constitutional Anti-Enumerationism from William Winslow Crosskey to Richard Primus

7. Abbe Gluck, Not your Father’s Federalism: Primus, Enumeration, and State Power in the Modern Era

8. John Mikhail, Why Did the Framers Enumerate Congressional Powers?

9. Richard Primus, Gratitude, and a Reply in Two Parts







We have assembled a terrific group of commentators, including Will Baude (Chicago), William Ewald (Penn), Jonathan Gienapp (Stanford), Abbe Gluck (Yale), Sandy Levinson (Texas), John Mikhail (Georgetown), Christina Ponsa-Kraus (Columbia).

At the conclusion, Richard will respond to the commentators.


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