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Alma mater University of MichiganUniversity of Pennsylvania Books The President - office and, The Constitution and What, The "higher Law" Backgrou, The Doctrine of Judicial R, John Marshall and the C Similar People Jack Peltason, Max Farrand, George MacKinnon Wrong, Henry Jones Ford, Ralph Delahaye Paine | ||
Edward Samuel Corwin (January 19, 1878 – April 23, 1963) was president of the American Political Science Association.
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He was born in Plymouth, Michigan on January 19, 1878. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1900; and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905. He was invited to join the faculty of Princeton University by Woodrow Wilson in 1905. In 1908 he was appointed the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence. He authored many books on United States constitutional law, and he remained at Princeton until he retired in 1946. He died on April 23, 1963 and was buried in Princeton Cemetery.
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He has been often quoted for saying that the Constitution "is an invitation to struggle for the privilege of directing American foreign policy."