@article{11450,
  author = {Keith Whittington},
  title = {Recovering "From the State of Imbecility"},
  abstract = { <p>A number of recent revisionist histories of the American founding have usefully emphasized the ways in which the U.S. Constitution was designed to create a powerful and effective national government. Calvin Johnson{\textquoteright}s Righteous Anger at the Wicked States adds to that number and ably highlights the importance to the founding generation of creating a national government capable of assessing and collecting taxes in order to secure national interests. As a complete explanation for the Constitution, however, Johnson{\textquoteright}s focus obscures other positive attributes of the constitutional project of 1787.</p> },
  year = {2006},
  journal = {Texas Law Review},
  volume = {84},
  pages = {1567-1586},
  language = {eng},
}