His other works included the Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State, co-authored with R. Laurence Moore, studies of Edmund Burke, a biography of the English socialist Harold Laski, and an edition of The Federalist Papers.
One pursues goodness, the other happiness.”[4]Professor Kramnick’s research was perhaps less data-oriented than directed toward a textual critique of the metaphysical, the product of extensive reading and writing.
Kramnick's controversial treatise, written with Cornell co-faculty member R. Laurence Moore, does not deny that the Republic's founding generation had religious beliefs.
Rather, The Godless Constitution argues that the founding fathers believed that a clear separation between religious and civil authority could prevent a specific kind of tyranny.
Kramnick and Moore suggest that the colonial 18th century American eastern seaboard experience proved that civil magistrates given religious authority used that power irresponsibly.
Just after the turn of the century, Kramnick was responsible for the planning and coordinating academic programming for Cornell's North and West campuses.