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Eric Lane is a professor at Hofstra Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Michael Oreskes is Executive Editor of the International Herald Tribune and formerly an editor and the national political correspondent for the New York Times. This article is adapted from their book The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved our Country and Why It Can Again. (BloomsburyUSA, 2007)
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