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Rejoinder to Gordon Wood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2011

Extract

Gordon Wood mentions that in 1987, as part of the Hebrew University's program of events marking the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, he delivered the annual Samuel Paley Lectures in American Civilization at the University in Jerusalem. If I, as chairman of the Department of American Studies was, as he says, a gracious host, he was no less a gracious guest and, moreover, a fascinating lecturer. A synopsis of his remarks is included in the volume that I edited, The Constitutional Bases of Political and Social Change in the United States, comprising lectures delivered at a bicentennial conference later that year and attended by prominent American and Israeli constitutional scholars, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Aharon Barak, now President of the Israeli Supreme Court.

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Forum: Response
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Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 1998

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References

1. Wood notes that I reside and teach in Israel. I feel obliged to point out, however, that I was born and educated in Australia (LL.B., Melb.), and received my graduate education in the United States (M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia).

2. New York: Praeger, 1990.

3. Wood, Gordon S., “‘Motives at Philadelphia’: A Comment on Slonim,” Law and History Review 16 (1998): 555CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4. Wood, , The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), 476.Google Scholar

5. Bailyn, , The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, enlarged ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1992), vii.Google Scholar