Constitution

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/10/19
  

  From Consensus To Deadlock: Is Impeachment Still A Check On Presidents?

  The arc of partisanship in impeachment, to some extent, matches the increased polarization of politics in America over the last 45 years. It moves from consensus to deadlock.

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• SOURCE: NYR Daily
  12/3/19
  

  The Framers’ Answers to Three Myths About Impeachment

  by Garry Wills

  Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who has been overseeing the impeachment hearings, is badly misrepresenting the Constitution when he says that the Congress is a co-equal branch of government with the presidency.

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• 12/1/2019
  

  A Wealth Tax? Two Framers Weigh In

  by Ray Raphael

  Wealth taxes are on the current political table and hotly debated. All taxation was on the framers’ table as they considered a new constitution. What would they make of the measures we are considering now?

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• 12/1/2019
  

  William Barr’s Upside-Down Constitution

  by Robert J. Spitzer

  The Trump administration’s many questionable actions have raised both new and old concerns about the extent and reach of executive power.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  11/13/19
  

  The 96-Year-History of the Equal Rights Amendment

  A brief history of the long battle to pass what would now be the 28th Amendment

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/31/19
  

  Impeachment Wasn’t Always This Fair

  by Buckner F. Melton, Jr.

  For more than half of the country’s history, potential impeachment defendants had wildly different rights from the ones they have today.

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• 10/27/19
  

  Why Originalism Should Apply to Impeachment

  by Donald J. Fraser

  I have never been a supporter of originalism. Until recently, I was also skeptical that impeachment was the right way to handle Donald Trump’s presidency. But I have recently changed my mind.

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• SOURCE: Washington Pot
  10/24/19
  

  The Constitution isn’t the cure for President Trump. It is the cause.

  by Shira Lurie

  Democrats point to President Trump’s violations of the Constitution, but the document’s undemocratic foundations enable him.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/20/19
  

  Pelosi Has History and the Constitution at Her Back

  by Caroline Fredrickson

  When the president runs amok, the House has a congressional duty to step in and provide oversight.

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• 10/6/19
  

  Revolutionary Inspiration for Moral Choices in Trump's America

  by T.H. Breen

  Revolutionaries upheld the rule of law and decided that patriotism could best be expressed by preserving the fundamental principles of habeas corpus and due process.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/26/19
  

  This Is Why the Impeachment Clause Exists

  by Adam Serwer

  The authors of the Constitution foresaw the possibility of a corrupt president who would abuse his official powers to stay in office.

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• 9/22/19
  

  The Separation of Church and State is About Freedom For Religion not Freedom From Religion

  by Christopher Binetti

  History shows that the State is more of a threat to the Church than vice-versa.

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• SOURCE: Time
  8/23/19
  

  The U.S. Constitution Doesn’t Guarantee Equal Rights for Women. Here’s Why

  Here’s what to know about Equal Rights Amendment history, what could happen to it next and how it could change American society.

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• SOURCE: Tablet
  8/14/19
  

  Is the U.S. Constitution Pro-Slavery?

  A review of Sean Wilentz's No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding. 

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• 6/30/19
  

  Adding a Citizenship Question to the Census Will Return It to Its Racist Origins

  by Derek Litvak

  The Trump administration is now attempting to do exactly what slaveholders did in the eighteenth-century: use the Constitution to inflate the political power of a vocal minority. 

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• 5/19/19
  

  Civics 101: Instilling Constitutional Literacy in Tomorrow’s Strategic Leaders

  by Gregory D. Foster

  A professor at one of the U.S. military’s senior colleges argues that if the public is to be properly served by uniformed military officers, federal civil servants, and Foreign Service Officers, their education should focus more on Civics 101. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/11/19
  

  Why We Still Care About America’s Founders

  by Rick Atkinson

  Despite their flaws, their struggle continues to speak to the nation we want to become.

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• 5/12/19
  

  George Mason: Lost Founder

  by William G. Hyland Jr.

  Why George Mason rightly deserves to be considered one of the fathers of our national government. 

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• 4/14/19
  

  The Electoral College and the Myth of a Proslavery Ploy

  by Sean Wilentz

  A Reply to Akhil Reed Amar.

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• 4/7/19
  

  James Madison Responds to Sean Wilentz

  by Alan Singer

  The Electoral College may not have been expressly designed only to protect African slavery, but based on Madison’s notes, it was the mode most preferred by pro-slavery forces.