Throughout its history, the United States Constitution has led a dual existence as ... not a democracy—perhaps an underappreciated nuance but an important one, in that a republic guards individual ...
The powers not delegated to the United States ... the original Constitution: the national government possesses only those powers delegated to it, and “leaves to the several States a residuary ...
Could that be happening in the United States ... Constitution is more important, the Framers believed, because, if you couldn’t revise a constitution, you’d have no way to change the ...
Limiting government, particularly at the federal level, is a core American principle. When asked whether the Constitutional Convention would produce a monarchy or a republic, Benjamin Franklin ...
Constitutional Symmetry: Judging in a Divided Republic. As readers may have noticed, the United States is closely divided over politics, and each political coalition advances a distinct ...
The same week the United States commemorated ... instructed his nation's government to "move ahead with speed" in abolishing the country's constitutional monarchy–the final move in erasing ...