America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, ...

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Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are openly challenging the centuries-old power of ...

Trump is different. His defiance lies in plain view. There is no dignity. There is no restraint. There is only power. The ...

Once the Constitution was ratified, advocates and jurists argued primarily from its text. Gienapp's treatment of Alexander Hamilton is emblematic of this mistake. He cites Hamilton's famous line ...

Alexander Hamilton, the great champion of a powerful ... nearly every literate American had read the Constitution. As the bruising battle for ratification was about to make clear, you could ...

In fact, I believe the president’s executive order is the most direct assault on the authority of Congress in the history of ...

Opinion: If we want the president to have the power to pardon nonviolent offenses, we must accept that the president is ...

The US president’s power to pardon is both one of the most absolute and misunderstood provisions of the Constitution ... by the justice system, as Alexander Hamilton wrote.