Abstract
Among the many contributions of Herman Belz, perhaps the most meaningful from the perspective of a political theorist is Belz’s artful weaving of history and ideas in his many great works. Belz is among the very best historians of the United States, and he has achieved this accomplishment without suffocating the great, transcendent ideas of the American regime with the methodological assumptions of historicism. He has enlightened those of us in political science with the critical context of American history that we are prone to forget, yet has done so in a way that enhances our ability to talk about