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

A single example will illustrate the point. In the late 1790s Alexander Hamilton, an outspoken advocate of loose construction of the Constitution as well as of using the Necessary and Proper ...

President Joe Biden sounded the alarm as he prepared to leave the White House. Speaking to the American people from the Oval ...

Doomscrolling scenarios like a Trump third term won’t happen. But what if this administration defies court orders?

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 ...

By 1768, Dad Hamilton abandoned his family, Mom Hamilton died of fever, and young Alexander was a Caribbean ... Papers ...

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.