Doug Kendall

The Case for New Textualism

To read the other essays in the First Principles: Debating the Constitution symposium, click here. Progressives are correct to worry that the conservative account of constitutional interpretation has dominated the public discourse for the past 40 years. But the...

Doug Kendall and Jim Ryan respond

To read the other essays in the First Principles: Debating the Constitution symposium, click here. The significant points of agreement between the two sides of this debate are now well established. We agree that conservatives currently have the upper...