Annotation. William P. Kreml contends that the sectoral divide - the division between the public and private sectors and not the divisions among America's political institutions are traditionally understood - makes up the historically and ideologically most significant separation within American law. He offers an original reinterpretation of American Constitutional development, tracing the evolution of the private and public sectors through the Magna Carta, Edward I, Coke, Blackstone, and others and assessing the impact of the English sectoral divide on the U.S. Constitution. Kreml writes that the evolution of the ideological argument between English common law and English state law had a direct impact on the development of the private and public jurisdictions within the pre-Constitutional American states as well as on the Constitutional argument between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. The same sectoral differentiation, Kreml maintains, underpinned the highly distinctive ideological perspectives ofthe Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Kreml then traces the sectoral divide through U.S. legal history, arguing, for example, that Roe v. Wade was not a privacy case as is commonly believed and that the open housing case of Shelley v. Kraemer was not a public-sector-enhancing case but rather a victory for private common law principles. Kreml employs a sectoral analysis to what he believes to be the Burger Court's incorrect decision in the campaign finance case of Buckley v. Valeo, and he offers an original reinterpretation of the judicial activism of the Warren Court and the differentiation between early Constitutional and Warren-era forms of political majoritarianism.

In September 2003, seven former heads of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs gathered for the first time ever to compare their experiences working for every president from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton. For two days, these congressional liaisons, charged with moving their respective presidents’ legislative agendas through an independent—and sometimes hostile—Congress, shared first-hand views of the intricacies of presidential-congressional relations: how it works, how it doesn’t work, and the fascinating interplay of personalities, events, and politics that happens along the way. Hosted by noted presidential scholar Russell Riley and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, this seminar also featured a number of invited scholars of American politics, including the eminent Richard E. Neustadt, who appeared just before his death a month later. As explained by Riley, “. . . these discussions enlighten in two ways: they provide us a revealing glimpse into the inside, usually hidden, business of Washington, and they afford us the considered reflections of a thoughtful group of political veterans.” What makes these exchanges especially compelling, however, is their bipartisan cast, with Republicans Max L. Friedersdorf, William L. Ball III, and Frederick McClure joining Democrats Frank Moore, Charles M. Brain, John Hilley, and Lawrence Stein in thoughtful and friendly conversation.

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