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The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance. In the seventh volume of this series, scholars of American history, law, and politics discuss how the American Revolution unleashed the forces of constitution-making in the United States. As states erected new governments in the wake of independence, they worked to combine traditions of colonial self-government with both classical and novel political theories. Studying the revolutionary period shows how it gave birth to a constitutional culture that shaped the delegates and debates that would forge the nation's enduring Constitution in 1787.

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Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founder and editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor at The New Atlantis, a contributing editor at National Review, and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times Adam J. White is the Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme Court and the administrative state. Concurrently, he directs the Antonin Scalia Law School's C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State. John Yoo is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley; and a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University and the author of The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840 (2021). Harvey C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government, Emeritus, at Harvard University and the author of The Spirit of Liberalism (1978) and America's Constitutional Soul (1991). Jack N. Rakove is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science and (by courtesy) law at Stanford University. He is the author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996), which won the Pulitzer Prize for history. Colleen A. Sheehan is a professor of politics at Arizona State University and the David and Patricia Caldwell Visiting Scholar on the American Founding at the Heritage Foundation.

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