Edward J. Erler is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and Professor of Political Science at California State University, San Bernardino. He is the author of The American Polity (Crane Russak, 1993), and articles on the fourteenth amendment, affirmative action, the death penalty and other topics.
From 1983-84, Dr. Erler served as director of bicentennial programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, and serves currently as a member of the California Civil Rights Commission.
Selected Writings by Edward J. Erler:
- From Subjects to Citizens: The Social Compact Origins of American Citizenship
- Marbury v. Madison and the Progressive Transformation of Judicial Power
- Bush, la Justicia y las Politicas Raciales
- The Political Philosophy of the Constitution
- The First Amendment and the Theology of Republican Government, review of David Lowenthal's No Liberty for License
- Reply to Lowenthal
- Is Big Brother Moving In? the State of Property Rights in a "Takings" Society
- Californians and Their Constitution: Progressivism, Direct Democracy, and the Administrative State
- The Future of Civil Rights: Affirmative Action Redivivus
- The Constitution and the Separation of Powers
- The Great Fence to Liberty: The Right to Property in the American Founding
- The Ninth Amendment and Contemporary Jurisprudence
- Articles by Edward Erler appearing in The Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
- James Madison and the Framing of the Bill of Rights
- Crime, Punishment, and Romero: An Analysis of the Case Against California's Three Strikes Law, with Brian Janiskee
- California's Three Strikes Law: Symbol and Substance, with Brian Janiskee
- Natural Right in the American Founding, review of Harry V. Jaffa's Original Intent and the Framers of the American Constitution: A Disputed Question
- The California Supreme Court in the Culture Wars: A Case Study in Judicial Failure
- "Harry V. Jaffa," entry in American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, edited by Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson
- "Solzhenitsyn," in Statesmanship: Essays in Honor of Winston Churchill (1981)
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