title: Understanding Clarence Thomas: The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Restoration
author:  Ralph A. Rossum 
description: "Rossum deftly navigates Thomass background and writings in way thateven if not enough to change the minds of Thomass criticsat least should improve public appreciation for Thomass work."<i><b>Political Science Quarterly</b></i>
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  September 2019 • Volume 48, Number 9
  Clarence Thomas is our era’s most consequential jurist, as radical as he is 
  brave. During his almost three decades on the bench, he has been laying out a blue-
  print for remaking Supreme Court jurisprudence. His template is the Constitution as 
  the Framers wrote it during that hot summer in Philadelphia 232 years ago, when they 
  aimed to design “good government from reflection and choice,” as Alexander Hamil-
  ton put it in the first Federalist, rather than settle for a regime formed, as are most in 
  history, by “accident and force.” In Thomas’s view, what the Framers achieved remains 
  as modern and up-to-date—as avant-garde, even—as it was in 1787. 
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  The following is adapted from a speech delivered on September 17, 2019, at Hillsdale 
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