Eric Eisner
@ericjeisner.bsky.social
History PhD student at Johns Hopkins. Studied law at Yale. Non-practicing rootless cosmopolitan.
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🗃️ Read @ericjeisner.bsky.social and @dfroomkin.bsky.social on John Tyler and how “the Constitution is only as strong as the people who breathe life into its words.” www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Constitution Does Not Speak for Itself
In 1841, John Tyler said he was the president. The Constitution said he wasn’t. What happened next?
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April 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🗃️ Read @ericjeisner.bsky.social and @dfroomkin.bsky.social on John Tyler and how “the Constitution is only as strong as the people who breathe life into its words.” www.hnn.us/article/the-...
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Check out Part III for why even the cynical anti-democratic textual argument doesn’t hold up on its own terms — with thanks to @dfroomkin.bsky.social and @ericeisner.bsky.social
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Officers
The Constitution speaks of “Officers,” “Officers of the United States,” and “Offices under [the Authority of] the United States.” Some scholars equate “Officers
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March 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Check out Part III for why even the cynical anti-democratic textual argument doesn’t hold up on its own terms — with thanks to @dfroomkin.bsky.social and @ericeisner.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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As @ericjeisner.bsky.social and I have argued, the word “election” in the Constitution does not refer exclusively to a popular election. That's why the pre-Seventeenth Amendment Constitution could understand the selection of Senators by state legislatures as an “election.”
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March 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
As @ericjeisner.bsky.social and I have argued, the word “election” in the Constitution does not refer exclusively to a popular election. That's why the pre-Seventeenth Amendment Constitution could understand the selection of Senators by state legislatures as an “election.”