The preservation of our constitutional system rests on three foundational predicates:  government has only that power granted to it by...

“He who saves his Country,” President Donald Trump wrote on social media, “does not violate any Law.”       Does the Constitution, in...

A U.S. federal judge in Rhode Island has declared President Donald Trump in violation of his order to release billions of dollars in...

The Framers’ conception of the American Presidency--its central functions, powers and limits--has faded across the decades as presidents...

At its best, the presidential pardon power is a tool of mercy, an instrument to correct abuses of power and miscarriages of justice. At...

President Donald Trump’s Second Inaugural Address ignored the path of reconciliation, magnanimity and unity that distinguished the...

Election victories teem with opportunities for a new administration to renew and reform governmental institutions, revise vital areas of...

When Donald Trump assumes office on January 20, as the 47th President of the United States, he will mark the solemn occasion with an...

There is no system in place in America to dial up the president that the nation most needs at a given juncture. It is true that most...

In this season of peace and joy and celebration, accentuated in many homes by the presence of Charles Dickens’, “A Christmas Carol,”...

English history was constantly before the eyes of delegates to the Constitutional Convention as they stressed about the exercise of the...

Readers’ questions about the origins and scope of the presidential pardon power, triggered by President Joe Biden’s grant of a pardon to...

If it is true, as the Athenian philosopher Heraclitus said, that “character is destiny,” then it may be said that a nation’s constitution...

President-elect Donald Trump is not a fan of NATO—the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—which has been the backbone of the US-European...

The Recess Appointment power, seldom at the forefront of national discussion, resurfaced last week as a headline topic when...

Presidential elections have consequences, as they say, and national airwaves are filled with voices engaging in speculation and...

James Madison, writing in August of 1823 from his home in Montpelier, Virginia, to which he repaired in what turned out be a futile...

The presidential election of 1788, the first under the newly minted Constitution, was unusual and even unique in ways that 21st Century...

Our ongoing review of the origins and rationales that undergird the Electoral College reveals a central point that cannot be ignored. The...

One of the chief justifications for the Electoral College, advanced by its advocates, is that small, lightly populated states require...