The fifth volume of "The Complete Works of William Howard Taft" presents two publications Taft wrote as Kent Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale University, the position he assumed in 1913 after he was defeated in his bid for re-election as U.S. president. The first, "Popular Government," was prepared for a series of lectures, but was motivated by Taft s passion over the issue of constitutional interpretation, which had been hotly contested during the campaign. Organized around the preamble of the Constitution, the lectures and later the book were opportunities for Taft to restate his...
The fifth volume of "The Complete Works of William Howard Taft" presents two publications Taft wrote as Kent Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale U...
