Category: Constitutional Topics

Americans often worry about the stability of the next election. But our constitutional system has already been tested by electoral chaos four separate times in its history, pushing the nation to the very brink. These are not just dusty stories from a history book. They are urgent lessons in how the Constitution’s guardrails have been…

The American Presidency is the most powerful office on Earth. A single individual can command armies, negotiate with world leaders, and shape the course of history. But in our modern, often-heated political discourse, the immense power of the office can lead to a fundamental misunderstanding of its nature. The President is not a king. The…

In a social media post on Monday, the President of the United States made one of the most explicit and constitutionally radical claims of his time in office. Announcing a new push against mail-in ballots and voting machines, he declared that the states are “merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government” in elections and that…

In 1812, Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signed off on a new state senate district so bizarrely shaped that his opponents famously said it looked like a mythical salamander. A local newspaper cartoonist combined the two, and the “Gerry-mander” was born. For over 200 years, this dark art of political map-making – the practice of drawing…

Is your American citizenship a permanent, unassailable right, or is it a privilege the government can revoke if it decides you are no longer worthy? This is not a theoretical question. This week, the President of the United States declared he was giving “serious consideration to taking away” the U.S. citizenship of a private citizen…

In a stunning revelation submitted to a federal court, the government of El Salvador has declared that the Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration to its maximum-security CECOT prison remain under the “sole custody” and “exclusive legal responsibility” of the United States. This statement, delivered to the United Nations, directly contradicts months of assertions…

Our world is on a razor’s edge. We see it in the Middle East, where the exchange of fire between Israel, Iran, and now the United States has turned a shadow war into a direct conflict. We see it in the enduring tensions between nuclear powers like India and Pakistan, and in the instability that…

At the center of today’s fiercest political and cultural fault lines lies a question the framers of the Constitution never saw coming: How does an 18th-century charter of governance grapple with 21st-century understandings of identity? As courtrooms and legislatures across the country wrestle with issues like bathroom access, youth healthcare, and pronoun policies, the debate…

There is a war being waged for the soul of America. It is not being fought with guns and cannons, but in our children’s classrooms. It is a battle over our very identity, a coordinated effort to tear down our heroes, slander our founding, and teach a new generation to be ashamed of their own…

America has two days that celebrate independence. One commemorates the birth of a nation; the other, the liberation of its people. One is the articulation of a promise; the other, the beginning of its painful and long-overdue delivery. The Fourth of July and Juneteenth are not competing holidays. They are two indispensable parts of the…