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• Bowie, Nikolas. “Why the Constitution Was Written Down.” Stanford Law Review, vol. 71, no. 6, June 2019, pp. 1397–508.
• Broadwater, Jeff. “James Madison and the Constitution.” Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, vol. 123, no. 3, June 2015, pp. 203–35.
• Burger, Warren E. “How Can We Cope? The Constitution after 200 Years.” American Bar Association Journal, vol. 65, no. 2, Feb. 1979, p. 203.
• Cassel, Russell N. “Role of Washington and His War Family as Architects of the U.S. Constitution.” Education, vol. 115, no. 1, Fall 1994, p. 111.
• Chayes, Abram. “How Does the Constitution Establish Justice?” Harvard Law Review, vol. 101, no. 5, Mar. 1988, p. 1026.
• Endersby, James W., and L.Marvin Overby. “Congress and the Constitution: The Twenty-Seventh Amendment and the Past and Future of Constitutional Alteration.” Congress & the Presidency, vol. 45, no. 2, May 2018, pp. 166–84.
• Etleva Paplekaj. “The Constitution of United States of America and Its Path to Democracy through Its Amendments.” Perspectives of Law and Public Administration, vol. 9, no. Special, Sept. 2020, pp. 4–15.
• Farris, Michael. “Defying Conventional Wisdom: The Constitution Was Not the Product of a Runaway Convention.” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, vol. 40, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 61–146.
• Goodheart, Eugene. “The Constitution: Dead or Alive.” Society, vol. 50, no. 6, Dec. 2013, pp. 535–42.
• Hardy, Richard J., et al. “Constitution Day: An Opportunity for Honors Colleges to Promote Civic Engagement.” Honors in Practice, vol. 18, Jan. 2022, pp. 45–63.
• Holt, Jefferson A. “Reading Our Written Constitution.” Cumberland Law Review, vol. 45, no. 3, May 2015, pp. 487–564.
• Keane, Patrick. “The People and the Constitution.” Monash University Law Review, vol. 42, no. 3, Jan. 2017, pp. 529–44.
• Marshall, Thurgood. “Reflections on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.” Harvard Law Review, vol. 101, no. 1, Nov. 1987, p. 1.
• Mazurak, Zbigniew. “The Constitutional Limits on the Federal Government According to the Constitution’s Framers.” Politeja, vol. 32, Dec. 2014, pp. 183–201.
• Moseley, James D. “The U.S. Constitution of 1787, Based on Reason and Revelation.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 30, no. 1–2, 2018, pp. 145–68.
• Mulligan, Christina, et al. “Founding-Era Translations of the U.S. Constitution.” Constitutional Commentary, vol. 31, no. 1, Spring 2016, pp. 1–53.
• Palfreyman, Brett. “The Loyalists and the Federal Constitution.” Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 35, no. 3, Fall 2015, pp. 451–73.
• Pollack, Sheldon D. “Unraveling the Constitution.” Society, vol. 24, no. 2, Jan. 1987, pp. 56–59.
• Schaub, Diana. “Bioethics and the Constitution.” Public Interest, no. 156, Summer 2004, pp. 51–70.
• Simon, Larry G. “The Authority of the Framers of the Constitution: Can Originalist Interpretation Be Justified?” California Law Review, vol. 73, no. 5, Oct. 1985, p. 1482.
• Stallard, Mike. “The Biblical Basis of the United States Constitution.” Journal of Ministry & Theology, vol. 16, no. 2, Fall 2012, pp. 5–23.
• Weatherman, Donald V. “US Constitution.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2022.