Preamble as Policy

Robert Irons (Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology) is Associate Professor of Finance and Chair of the Accounting and Finance Department at Illinois Wesleyan University. He has taught undergraduate and MBA students for over twenty years and is published in numerous academic journals, including the Journal of Portfolio Management. Dr. Irons worked as a financial analyst for AT&T and United Airlines.Jim Twombly (Ph.D., Stony Brook University) is Professor of Political Science at Elmira College in New York. He is the author of The Progression of the American Presidency, Political Scandal and American Pop Culture: Sex, Power, and Cover-ups, and Directing the Whirlwind: The Trump Presidency and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State (with Lisa K. Parshall).

“In The Preamble as Policy<\i>, Irons and Twombly find in the Constitution’s Preamble an aspirational guide to America’s potential, even in times wrought with paralyzing polarization and civil unrest. This is a clever, hopeful book that will challenge readers to think critically about the Constitution, likely in ways they haven’t before.”– Joshua J. Dyck, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell

• Acknowledgments – A Preamble to the Preamble – Form a More Perfect Union – Establish Justice – Insure Domestic Tranquility – Provide for the Common Defense – Promote the General Welfare – Secure the Blessings of Liberty to Ourselves and Our Posterity – A Perfectible Union: Still Seeking Justice, Domestic Tranquility, a Common Defense, General Welfare, and the Blessings of Liberty – Index.