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How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution places the power "to declare War" exclusively in the hands of Congress. The ...
The US Constitution says any natural-born citizen over 35 who has lived in the country for at least 14 years can run for ...
A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...
In celebration of Independence Day, a reflection on our country's foundational document and what it should mean to us today.
The American model is liberty trumps power. In a police state, power trumps liberty. Is that what we voted for?
We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have ...
Even as a tenuous cease-fire between Iran and Israel appears to hold, Democrats in the U.S. Congress are falling over ...
The strikes violate both the Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Act. Whether they are good policy is a more difficult ...
We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand ...
The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...
Congress members also have protections stemming from the Constitution’s speech and debate clause ... for “ambition to counteract ambition,” as James Madison put it, to ensure one branch doesn’t get ...