Tribe's tribalisms By Ellis Washington

The invisible Constitution undergirds and pervades what most people understand the Constitution to be. When you look at the visible Constitution at the National Archives and draw the logical and linguistic inferences it supports, it doesn't tell you very much about what matters in constitutional law.

~ Laurence Tribe, Harvard's Carl M. Loeb professor of Constitutional Law

Words mean things.

~ Rush Limbaugh, conservative intellectual

Harvard professor of constitutional law Lawrence Tribe has just released his latest book, "The Invisible Constitution" (Oxford Press, 2008). In this interesting but bizarre work, professor Tribe proposes the thesis that lines between the actual black-letter text, what Tribe calls "the invisible constitution," is the actual Constitution.

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