A collection of essays which analyze the connections between the Torah and the American Constitution. The author elaborates on the centrality of law in both America and Judaism: the first bound to the Constitution and the Framers, and the second bound to Revelation.

Milton R. Konvitz, professor emeritus of industrial labor relations and of law at Cornell University, is the author of ten books, including The Constitution and Civil Rights, A Century of Civil Rights, Religious Liberty and Conscience, and Judaism and the American Idea, and he has edited thirteen other books, including First Amendment Freedoms, The Recognition of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Judaism and Human Rights and Bill of Rights Reader.