Entries for January 12, 2007

Josh Chafetz, Oxford Ph.D., Yale lawyer, and former blogger at oxblog.blogspot.com, has written what looks to be the definitive book on legislative privilege, Democracy's Privileged Few: Legislative Privilege and Democratic Norms in the British and American Constitutions. His publisher sent me a copy, and I look forward to paging through–especially the parts about the 17th-century English House of Commons, given my recent research for my forthcoming book on the Glorious Revolution of 1688–89, Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers. Amazon still has the word uprising in the subtitle; I've asked Crown Forum to use upheaval instead.