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November 2021

November 15, 2021

The Rule of Law

Reactions to recent court decisions indicate that many Americans have forgotten the importance of the...

September 2021

September 23, 2021

Our Elective Monarchy

"Great Britain is a republic, with a hereditary president, while the United States is a...

July 2021

July 13, 2021

Proposing a New Constitution

Our Constitution is getting in the way of certain progressive proposals, and the Founders have...

January 2021

January 14, 2021

Direction from James Madison

In Federalist No. 10, James Madison anticipates and addresses issues and problems we are having...

January 12, 2021

Is Democracy Really in Danger?

We have been hearing about how the problems of 2020 and 2021 endanger democracy. Are...

June 2020

June 01, 2020

USA as a “Failed Social Experiment”?

Riots sparked by police violence, protests against the COVID-19 shutdown, economic devastation, political dysfunction, and...

May 2019

May 09, 2019

A Majority of Americans Want to Change Our System of Government

Americans have become so disenchanted with Washington that a majority (54%) believe that our system...

April 2019

April 03, 2019

We’re Not Supposed to Have a Democracy

The United States of America is not a democracy. And it was never supposed to...

July 2018

July 11, 2018

Congress Shall “Regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations”

Now that our trade war with China and other countries is under way, we will...

October 2017

October 16, 2017

Why Leftists Are Now Silencing Liberals

Campus leftists have long been silencing conservative speakers. Now they have started to silence liberal...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

Electoral College Day, then and now

The Electoral College meets today, with the designated electors meeting in state capitols to cast...

October 2016

October 19, 2016

Why America will survive a bad election

Ma ny Americans icans are worried that our constitutional republic won't survive a Hillary Clinton...

October 12, 2016

Judge sees “absolutely no value” in studying the Constitution

Richard Posner is a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and...

April 2016

April 14, 2016

Updating the Constitution?

According to a recent poll, 41% of Democrats believe that the Constitution should be "updated."...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

The administrative state

Mollie Hemingway at the Federalist just rips to shreds the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. In the...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Madisonian politics

George Will has found something that President Obama and the Tea Party have in common: ...

January 2013

January 02, 2013

Should we abolish the Constitution?

Louis Michael Seidman, a Georgetown professor of Constitutional Law, no less, argues in the New...

November 2012

November 16, 2012

Balance of powers vs. balance of parties

In his column on attempts to the reform the filibuster, Ezra Klein points out that...

September 2012

September 20, 2012

Why do we even have a president?

Historian Kenneth C. Davis looks at the origin of the office of the President, something...

June 2012

June 06, 2012

Politics swallowing up the task of governing

We touched on this with the bill prohibiting sex-selection abortion, but here it is again,...

May 2012

May 09, 2012

The People’s Rights Amendment

House Democrats have introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that would specify that the rights guaranteed...

February 2012

February 10, 2012

Is the U.S. Constitution obsolete?

[An earlier version of this post went up with just the raw quotation and with...

July 2011

July 04, 2011

The National Debt and the Constitution

As we wrestle with the national debt and as Congress debates over whether to raise...

March 2011

March 03, 2011

You be the judge

Two Supreme Court cases. . . . (1) A man was shot. Just before he...

January 2011

January 03, 2011

Congress acknowledges the Constitution

This story in the Washington Post takes a dismissive and snarky tone, but I think...