John R. Vile is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University, USA.
John R. Vile’s A Companion to the United States Constitution and its Amendments does for this generation what John S. Hart’s A Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States and Edward S. Corwin’s The Constitution and What it Means Today did for previous ones. It takes the reader on an article-by-article, section-by-section, clause-by-clause, amendment-by-amendment analysis of the U.S. Constitution. Every student of the Constitution will find the commentary informative. The study of the Constitution has never been a formal part of most school curricula; yet to each of us belongs the challenge of learning it. This book will help. * Richard A. Glenn, Professor and Chair of Government, Policy, and Law, Millersville University, USA * When teaching Constitutional Law, my students need to understand the cases we look at their proper constitutional setting. With its current and concise expansion of the Constitution’s text, I know of no better book to accomplish that goal. * Jonathan R. Peterson, North Park University Chicago, USA *