Background
Rossum, Ralph Arthur was born on December 17, 1946 in Alexandria, Minnesota, United States. Son of Floyd Arthur and June Marion (Carlson) Rossum.
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Abraham Lincoln worried that the "walls" of the constitution would ultimately be leveled by the "silent artillery of time." His fears materialized with the 1913 ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, which, by eliminating federalism's structural protection, altered the very nature and meaning of federalism. Ralph A. Rossum's provocative new book considers the forces unleashed by an amendment to install the direct election of U.S. Senators. Far from expecting federalism to be protected by an activist court, the Framers, Rossum argues, expected the constitutional structure, particularly the election of the Senate by state legislatures, to sustain it. In Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment Rossum challenges the fundamental jurisprudential assumptions about federalism. He also provides a powerful indictment of the controversial federalist decisions recently handed down by an activist U.S. Supreme Court seeking to fill the gap created by the Seventeenth Amendment's ratification and protect the original federal design. Rossum's masterful handling of the development of federalism restores the true significance to an amendment previously consigned to the footnotes of history. It demonstrates how the original federal design has been amended out of existence; the interests of states as states abandoned and federalism left unprotected, both structurally and democratically. It highlights the ultimate irony of constitutional democracy: that an amendment intended to promote democracy, even at the expense of federalism, has been undermined by an activist court intent on protecting federalism, at the expense of democracy.
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Rossum, Ralph Arthur was born on December 17, 1946 in Alexandria, Minnesota, United States. Son of Floyd Arthur and June Marion (Carlson) Rossum.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Concordia College, 1968; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1973.
Instructor Grinnell (Iowa) College, 1972-1973. Assistant professor Memphis State University, 1973-1977, associate professor, 1977-1980, Loyola University, Chicago, 1980-1983, associate dean graduate school, 1981-1982. Deputy director bureau justice statistics United States Department Justice, Washington, 1983-1984.
Alice Tweed Tuohy professor government Claremont (California) McKenna College, 1984-1988, vice president and dean of faculty, 1988-1991. President Hampden-Sydney (Virginia) College, 1991-1992. Salvatori Visiting professor Claremont (California) McKenna College, 1992-1993, Salvatori professor American Constitutionalism, since 1994.
Fletcher Jones Professor of America Politics University Redlands, Redlands, California, 1993-1994. Member advisory board National Institute Corrections, United States Department Justice, 1988-1991. Member Robert Presley Institute Corrections Research and Training, State of California, 1988-1991.
Director Rose Institute of State and Local Government, 2000—2010. Member national board directors FIPSE, United States Department Education, 2002-2005, chairman board American Academy Liberal Education, 2009-2011.
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Trustee Episcopal Theological School, Claremont, 1987-1991. Member of American Political Science Association.
Married Constance Mary Brazina, August 19, 1972. Children: Kristin, Brent, Pierce.