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).

“When do you start talking about policy? You start at the beginning. That’s what Irons and Twombly have done in Preamble as Policy<\i>: taking students of government and public policy back to the first words of the Constitution. By anchoring an array of contemporary policy challenges in history and the Constitution, from just policing to welfare reform to anti- trust, the authors invite the reader to critically consider the purpose of government in the United States. They do this in under 100 pages, a feat worthy of a big welcome in every syllabus.”– Heath Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Policy, Department of Public Management and CUNY Graduate Center, John Jay College, City University of New York

• 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.