Jack N Rakove

Biographic Data

ID1067893
NAMEJack N Rakove
GIVEN NAMESJack N
FAMILY NAMERakove
SIGNATURERAKOVE J N
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS74
TOTAL CITATIONS68
AUTHOR COUNT73
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Historians and Originalism

    Jack N RakoveARTICLECalifornia History2025

    The dominance of originalism in contemporary constitutional interpretation gives historians both an opportunity and a responsibility to explain and illustrate how our discipline would resolve questions about the original meaning, intention, and understanding of particular clauses. In response to this challenge, the Brennan Center at NYU Law School organized a Historians’ Council to mobilize how the profession can contribute to ongoing legal and p…

  • Bernard Bailyn Memorial Remarks October 25, 2020

    Jack Rakove, Jack N RakoveARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2022

    THE poem that John just read makes two striking appearances in Professor Bailyn's most important book, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. It appears in full in the opening section and is quoted again in the final paragraph of the Postscript that he added to the twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition of 1992. Bud called this Postscript, “Fulfillment: A Commentary on the Constitution.” In it he argued that the constitutional arguments of…

  • W endell B ird . Criminal Dissent

    Open AccessJack N RakoveARTICLEThe American Historical Review2022

    In this thoroughly researched volume, Wendell Bird presents his third comprehensive scholarly report on the origins, enforcement, and (briefly) consequences of the controversial and controvertible Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. In two companion books, Bird has analyzed the role of Supreme Court justices, acting in their dual capacity as circuit court judges, in enforcing the Sedition Act and then traced the major doctrinal shifts in the Anglo-A…

  • The Cambridge Companion to The Federalist

    Open AccessJack N Rakove, Colleen A SheehanBOOKCambridge Companion to the…2020

    The eighty-five Federalist essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison as 'Publius' to support the ratification of the Constitution in 1787–88 are regarded as the preeminent American contribution to Western political theory. Recently, there have been major developments in scholarship on the Revolutionary and Founding era as well as increased public interest in constitutional matters that make this a propitious moment to refl…

  • The Beginnings of National Politics

    Open AccessJack Rakove, Jack N RakoveBOOKBeginnings of National Politics2019

  • Ideas, Ideology, and the Anomalous Problem of Revolutionary Causation

    Jack N RakoveARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2018

    When properly taught, the arguments of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution pivot on three issues; (1) how a Radical Whig ideology explains increasing American resistance after 1765; (2) how colonial and imperial differences on ideas such as representation, the nature of a constitution, and sovereignty illustrate the ways American governance had diverged from British antecedents; and (3), how Loyalists’ failure to recognize the dept…

  • Thinking Like a Constitution

    Jack N RakoveCHAPTERColonial America and the Early…2017

    Four passages or developments in the formative era of American constitutionalism illustrate what these dual aspects of "thinking like a constitution" meant in practice. It is easy to subsume Federalist 10 and 47 under this rubric, and to admire how James Madison simultaneously appropriates and undermines Montesquieu&s;s authority. But such an account cannot capture the course of empirical analysis and abstract theorizing for which these public es…

  • A Politician Thinking

    Jack N RakoveBOOKA Politician Thinking2017

  • The Heart of the Declaration

    Jack Rakove, Jack N RakoveARTICLEJournal of American History2017Cited by: 4

    This book can be read as an extended appendix to its author's major revisionist work 1688: The First Modern Revolution (2009). That massively researched study portrayed the Glorious Revolution not as a moderate and sensibly English response to a dynastic crisis, but as a profound struggle between rival coalitions committed to two strikingly different conceptions of a modern imperial state. The Heart of the Declaration is a more modest venture. Tw…

  • Les indépendances dans l'espace atlantique, v. 1763-v. 1829

    Marc Belissa, Manuel Covo et al.ARTICLEAnnales historiques de la…2016

    National audience

  • Got Nexus

    Jack Rakove, Jack N Rakove et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2011Cited by: 1References: 1

  • James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government by Colleen Sheehan

    Open AccessJack Rakove, Jack N RakoveARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2010

    Journal Article James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government by Colleen Sheehan Get access James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Governmentby Colleen Sheehan. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 204pp. $80.00. Jack Rakove Jack Rakove Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 125, Issue 1, Spring 2010, Pages 152–154, https://doi.o…

  • Nature and History in American Political Development

    Jack N Rakove, James W Ceaser et al.BOOKNature and History in American…2009

  • Taking the Prerogative out of the Presidency

    Open AccessJack N RakoveARTICLEPresidential Studies Quarterly2007Cited by: 3References: 2

    Claims for the inherent authority of the executive over issues of national security imply that the adopters of the Constitution relied on prior British definitions equating executive power and royal prerogative. These claims cannot survive the scrutiny of key sources, including Locke's treatment of the federative power in his Second Treatise , the Federal Convention's debates over the presidency, and the famous 1793 exchange between Hamilton and …

  • Can We Know a Foundational Idea When We See One?

    Jack N RakoveCHAPTERNature and History in American…2006

  • Rationality, Inaccurate Mental Models, and Self-confirming Equilibrium

    Open AccessRui J P De Figueiredo, Jack Rakove et al.ARTICLEJournal of Theoretical Politics2006Cited by: 6References: 16

    Rational choice theorists have long been ambivalent about the rationality postulate. Although many agree that humans have imperfect foresight and inaccurate understandings of the world within which they act, no satisfactory approach relaxing the rationality postulates exists. In this article, we apply a new method that allows us to model directly rational action when agents have incomplete or inaccurate mental models of their world. In particular…

  • Presidential Selection

    Open AccessJack N RakoveARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2004Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Presidential Selection: Electoral Fallacies Get access Jack N. Rakove Jack N. Rakove JACK N. RAKOVE is the Coe Professor of History and American Studies, and professor of political science, at Stanford University. He is the author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution and numerous essays on the historical roots of contemporary constitutional disputes. Search for other works by this author on: O…

  • Europe's Floundering Fathers

    Jack Rakove, Jack N RakoveARTICLEForeign Policy2003Cited by: 1

  • States' Rights and the Union

    Jack N Rakove, Forrest McdonaldARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2002

    States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876. By Forrest McDonald. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. viii, 296. $29.95.) The historiography of the issue of federalism, often referred to as rights, is lengthy list of specific case studies. Books and essays abound on Hamilton's bank proposal, M'Culloch v. Maryland, and the nullification crisis, but one has attempted to weave these numerous events into continuing h…

  • Words, Deeds, and Guns

    Jack N RakoveARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2002

    reached the Supreme Court since Hitler invaded Poland, its twenty-seven words are now among the most familiar passages of the Constitution. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The familiarity of this text is, perhaps perversely, a function of the fact that the justices, in their wisdom or discretion, have not revisited their holding in the…

  • Creating Congress

    Jack N Rakove, Kenneth R Bowling et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2002

  • Founding Friendship

    Jack N Rakove, Stuart LeibigerARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2001

  • Rights Talk in the Past Tense

    Jack N Rakove, Elizabeth Beaumont et al.ARTICLEStanford Law Review2000

  • American Compact

    Jack N Rakove, Gary RosenARTICLEJournal of American History2000Cited by: 7

    Journal Article American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding. By Gary Rosen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xii, 237 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0960-1.) Get access Jack N. Rakove Jack N. Rakove Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Page 653, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568804 Publishe…

  • The Papers of George Washington

    Jack N Rakove, Dorothy Twohig et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2000