And once again I would submit to you that if his name was Jim Smith, 10th generation American all around good guy and prolific Constitutional author, he’d be almost as well known on Free Republic as commentator Conscience of a Conservative.
I don’t know, maybe it’s because I’m a lawyer myself, but there are plenty of prominent constitutional academics who are more “all-American” and are know around here- Cass Sunstein, Eugene Volokh, Charles Fried, Robert Bork, Alan Dershowitz, Laurence Tribe, Glenn Reynolds, to name just a few.