Book Review: The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic

With the recent events in Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charleston and the Supreme Court decisions on Obamacare and same-sex marriage, Americans are thinking about their rights and how the U.S. Constitution defines them. It is thus with good timing that the widely read Yale constitutional law professor Akhil Reed Amar has come around again with a new book, The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic — an engaging work that focuses on how the Constitution manifests itself in different ways in different parts of the United States.