Jack Rakove, Haverford
Class of 1968, won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for History. The Coe Professor of
History and American Studies at Stanford University was awarded the prize for
his book Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.
In his work, Rakove argues that "originalism," the practice of interpreting
the Constitution by a fixed set of the Framer's intentions, should not be the
only approach to settling today's judicial questions.