The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they ...

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As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The accumulation of ...

Mr. Goldsmith, an assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, is an author, with Bob Bauer, of a newsletter about presidential and executive power. Mr. Moyn is the author of the ...