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Jack Rakove

Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
Emeriti
A.B., Haverford College, Honors in History (1968)
Ph.D., Harvard University, History (1975)
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Books

The Cambridge Companion to The Federalist

The Cambridge Companion to The Federalist

2020
Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience

Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience

2020
A Politician Thinking The Creative Mind of James Madison

A Politician Thinking The Creative Mind of James Madison

2017
Book with red cover - Prof. Rakove publication

The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence

2012
Rakove Publication

Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America

2010
  

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It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure

June 27, 2025
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Stanford constitutional scholar Jack Rakove discusses second Trump impeachment trial

February 11, 2021

The framers of the Constitution didn’t worry about ‘originalism’

October 16, 2020

When Thomas Jefferson penned “all men are created equal,” he did not mean individual equality, says Stanford scholar

July 1, 2020

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