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Edward Samuel Corwin
1878–1963
A leading interpreter of the U.S. Constitution, this Princeton scholar helped generations of readers think more clearly about presidential power, the Supreme Court, and the changing meaning of American law. His writing brought big constitutional questions into sharp, readable focus.
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John Marshall and the Constitution, a Chronicle of the Supreme Court
by Edward Samuel Corwin
About the author
Born near Plymouth, Michigan, in 1878, Edward Samuel Corwin studied at the University of Michigan and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania before joining Princeton University in 1905. He went on to spend most of his career there, becoming McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and an important figure in the university's politics department.
Corwin became one of the best-known American scholars of constitutional law and political science in the first half of the twentieth century. He wrote widely on the Constitution, the presidency, the Supreme Court, and the relationship between law and government, and he also served as president of the American Political Science Association.
He is especially remembered for making difficult constitutional debates understandable to students and general readers without stripping away their complexity. His books and essays remained influential long after his retirement, and his work still stands as a major part of the modern study of American constitutional thought.