Book Reviews : The Constitutionalist: Notes on the First Amendment. By GEORGE ANASTAPLO. (Dallas, Texas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1971. PP. xiii, 826. $20.00.)

• Published date: 01 December 1972
• Author: G. Homer Durham
• DOI: 10.1177/106591297202500417
• Date: 01 December 1972
• Subject Matter: Articles

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the need for an uncluttered and more readable text outweighs the scholars’ need
for immediate sources from which to evaluate the arguments, but this would be
more appropriate if the book were intended for wide, popular distribution.
These shortcomings notwithstanding. Fisher has provided us with a well-
researched and clearly-presented, developmental account of the relative power be-
tween the President and Congress in four major areas. The book will serve well in
upper division and graduate courses on the subject, as well as providing a useful
reference for scholars in the field.
ROBERT S. Ross
California State University, Chico
The Constitutionalist: Notes on the First Amendment. By GEORGE ANASTAPLO.
(Dallas, Texas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1971. P
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xiii, 826.
$20.00.)
Professor Anastaplo, in his preface, writes: &dquo;This book is quite personal, even
autobiographical to a degree.&dquo; To those expecting a comprehensive review of cases
on the First Amendment, he also warns that the volume &dquo;is a constitutional com-
media which contains less than its title promises, and yet more.&dquo; He also writes
that the book is devoted &dquo;to the study of constitutionalism, virtue and freedom -
and hence to the reign of moderation in human affairs.&dquo;
Anyone expecting a successor volume to Zechariah Chafee, therefore, will not
find it in this work. Rather, one comes to feel that Professor Anastaplo himself is
&dquo;The Constitutionalist&dquo; announced in the title, and that the &dquo;Notes on the First
Amendment&dquo; constitute a statement of personal philosophy and experience.
The nine chapters of the &dquo;book&dquo; itself cover some 285 pages. Appendices, six
in number, occupy the next 289 pages, set in smaller font. More written material
appears in the appendices, therefore, than in the book itself.
Appendix F, 129 pages in length, &dquo;In Re George Anastaplo (1950-61),&dquo; con-
stitutes a documented description of the...