Review of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution in the Washington Free Beacon

Ilya Shapiro, my friend and frequent co-author, reviewed The Heritage Guide to the Constitution in the Washington Free Beacon.

Here is the introduction:

There's a familiar lament among constitutionalists—one heard at law schools, in courtrooms, and across think tank hallways—that most Americans know next to nothing about the nation's founding document. Ask a random college graduate about the Emoluments Clause or the Compact Clause and you'll get a blank stare. Yet even among lawyers and judges, constitutional knowledge is often shallow, piecemeal, or warped by ideology.

What's been missing is a single, reliable, readable, and comprehensive reference work that explains what the Constitution actually says, what its words meant to those who wrote and ratified them, and how those meanings h