Gordon Lloyd, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Gordon Lloyd

Gordon Lloyd is the Robert and Katheryn Dockson Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. Dr. Lloyd is the co-author of three books on the American founding and sole author of a book on the political economy of the New Deal, Dr. Lloyd also has numerous articles, reviews, and opinion-editorials to his credit. His latest co-authored book, The Two Narratives of Political Economy, was published in 2010.

Let Justice Be Our Guide: Federalism and the Constitutional Convention

By Gordon Lloyd|2018-10-26T22:55:36-05:00October 29th, 2015|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Constitution, Constitutional Convention, Featured, Federalist Papers|Tags: 1PSR|

James H. Hutson concludes his valuable 1984 survey of two hundred years of Constitutional scholarship on a pessimistic note. Scholarship, says Hutson, is at a standstill because there is no consensus on how to interpret what took place at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Into the vacuum created by the protracted war between conflict [...]