The Constitution as a Communitarian Project. Communalism as the Original Originalism. With Utopian Visions of a Perfect Union. And a Living Document for a Dynamic Society.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again. Tom Paine. Common Sense. One of the great utopian movements in American history. Gordon Wood. The Creation of the American Republic. Burton Weltman Preface. The purposes of this essay are twofold. First, the essay contends that communitarianism was the predominant mindset of Americans before, [ ]