Alison LaCroix, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Alison LaCroix

Alison LaCroix is Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and an Associate Member of the University of Chicago Department of History. She is the author of The Ideological Origins of American Federalism (Harvard University Press, 2010).

Thirteen Clocks Striking Together: The Forging of American Independence

By Alison LaCroix|2016-07-04T01:02:49-05:00November 25th, 2015|Categories: Declaration of Independence, Featured, History, Literature, Thomas Jefferson|

Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776, by Richard R. Beeman (Basic Books, 2013) The Declaration of Independence is a document more revered than understood. Unlike the Constitution, the framing and ratification of which produced volumes of contemporary commentary that continue to inform political and legal debate, [...]