George Thomas is Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions and Director of the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of The Madisonian Constitution and The Founders and the Idea of a National University: Constituting the American Mind, and co-author of the two-volume American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes. He has published numerous scholarly articles on Constitutional Law and American Constitutionalism, and his essays have appeared in The Atlantic and The Washington Post. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Huntington Library, and is the recipient of the Alexander George Award from the American Political Science Association.

"The (Un)Written Constitution is a thoughtful, well-written slim volume that I could easily see assigning in an advanced undergraduate constitutional law course. Indeed, by paying close attention to Thomas's arguments, students will surely emerge as more confident constitutional interpreters in their own right and enhance their understanding of the necessity of exploring the principles that underlie the opinions of the justices." -- Kevin J. McMahon, Trinity College, Perspectives on Politics

"The (Un)Written Constitution involves Thomas's careful elucidations of the reasoning of judges on both sides of the political divide in a series of well-known Supreme Court decisions, from the nation's inception to the present" -- KEN I . KERSCH, American Political Thought

"Before turning to the substance of Thomas' arguments, it is important to note that this book is extremely well-written and accessible enough for well-informed non-lawyers but also sufficiently sophisticated to appeal to constitutional law professors—no easy trick. Above all, Thomas does a masterful job presenting opposing arguments in their strongest lights before he tears them down. He takes textualist arguments seriously, even when he rejects them, which is exactly how a scholar should treat counterarguments." -- Eric Segall, Georgia State University College of Law, The New Rambler