After I posted on Birch Bayh’s central role in democratic reform, I learned of this extensive article with the above title that Gerard Magliocca posted last week on SSRN. Here’s the abstract of his article:
This Article examines the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments from 1964-1971 under Chairman Birch Bayh’s leadership. Topics covered include the Subcommittee’s hearings on the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, one-person, one-vote, Miranda warnings, school prayer, direct presidential election, and the Twenty-Sixth Amendment. My argument is that the Bayh Subcommittee was a linchpin in the constitutional transformation of the 1960s and pioneered new methods in evaluating and achieving higher law reform.
