James Ceaser on the Constitution and “political” Constitutionalism

James Ceaser, Conversations with Bill Kristol, March 2, 2015.

In this episode of Conversations with Bill Kristol, James W. Ceaser, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, discusses the Federalist‘s case for “rational reverence” for the Constitution. He also explains why the authors of the Federalist saw Constitutionalism in political, not merely juridical, terms.