In the News - Professor Mark Graber quoted in the New York Times

Professor Mark Graber's scholarship is quoted in, "Opinion: What is Justice Roberts Getting At?" in the New York Times on March 22, 2025.

I want to add that the Trump administration’s vision of a reactionary constitutionalism (if it is even constitutionalism) is reminiscent of the illiberal constitutionalism of the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy had a constitution and it wasn’t simply a modification of the federal Constitution with an explicit embrace of “compact theory” and ironclad protections for slavery. “The Constitution of the Confederate States,” the legal scholars Mark A. Graber and Howard Gillman wrote in their volume on American constitutionalism, “was the world’s first example of an illiberal constitution, a constitution unambiguously committed to maintaining and perpetuating illiberal practices.”