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Peter H. Schuck

Peter H. Schuck, Simon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale University, is co-editor of Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation and author of Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics.

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Joseph Carens characterizes his argument as “minimalist,” and in important senses it is. Its starting point is the conventional view, which Carens’s earlier work famously and strongly contests, that state sovereignty and...
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