People FacultyCourtesy & EmeritiLecturers & VisitorsGraduate StudentsUndergraduate StudentsLeadershipAlumniIn Memoriam 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) Books The Cambridge Companion to The Federalist 2020 Read More Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience 2020 Read More A Politician Thinking The Creative Mind of James Madison 2017 Read More The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence 2012 Read More Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America 2010 Read More Featured News Stanford constitutional scholar Jack Rakove discusses second Trump impeachment trial February 11, 2021 Read More The framers of the Constitution didn’t worry about ‘originalism’ October 16, 2020 Read More When Thomas Jefferson penned “all men are created equal,” he did not mean individual equality, says Stanford scholar July 1, 2020 Read More Contact Email rakove [at] stanford.edu External Profile Stanford Profile