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Bend Sinister: How the Constitution Saved the Republic and Lost Itself

THE 2008 JAMES MADISON LECTURE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2009

Theodore J. Lowi
Affiliation:
Cornell University

Extract

This is a history of illegitimacy in America. And here is my text, drawn from three Russians, who understand illegitimacy better than anyone else.

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Special to PS
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2009

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