Los Angeles Review of Books - America’s Nonexistent Constitutions

Los Angeles Review of Books - America’s Nonexistent Constitutions: "IN 1881, THE GREAT 19th century expositor of constitutional law Thomas M. Cooley wrote that one of the weaknesses of a written constitution — unlike Great Britain’s unwritten constitution — is that “it establishes iron rules, which, when found inconvenient, are difficult of change.” Thirty years later, in 1911, the dean of the University of Texas School of Law, John C. Townes, expressed the then-mainstream view that principles enshrined in the U.S. Constitution are both “fundamental” and “permanent.” Their meaning was thought to be fixed."

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