Anthony L. Ives is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University. In his draft opinion from a pending Supreme Court decision, Justice Alito claims that Roe v. Wade is “egregiously wrong.” The draft … Continue reading Roe v. Wade is Good Law
Kyle N. Shen is a graduate student in the department of government at The University of Texas at Austin. (1) From the non-legal scholar’s perspective, the focus of the leaked draft opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization are … Continue reading Statesmanship and the Court
Mark A. Graber is Regent Professor at the University of Maryland. James Buchanan’s inaugural address urged fellow Americans to allow the Supreme Court to resolve controversies over the status of slavery in American territories. Anticipating the claim made one hundred … Continue reading Judicial Leaking Nineteenth Century Style
Ben Peterson is an assistant professor of political science at Abilene Christian University. The United States is in a state of emergency—several in fact. As of this writing, the country is in a state of emergency with respect to 41 … Continue reading Normalizing the Abnormal: American Constitutionalism and the Routinization of Emergency
Charles U. Zug is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. Joe Biden began his presidency determined to replace the chaos, corruption, and ineptitude of the Trump Administration with deliberateness, transparency, and competence. He was especially … Continue reading President Biden Needs a Covid Plan
Benjamin A. Kleinerman is the R.W. Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He is the Editor of The Constitutionalist. “Energy in the executive is the leading character in the definition of good government.”—Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #70 It is not partisan … Continue reading “Sleepy Joe” and the Need for Executive Energy
Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most of what I know of books I’ve learned from my mom. Like her father before her, she’s been a librarian my whole life, caring … Continue reading What We Find Between the Pages
Greg Weiner is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Assumption University. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a regular contributor for The Constitutionalist. When Daniel Webster rose in the Senate to defend what … Continue reading Principle, Prudence and the Seventh of March
Steven B. Smith is the Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Over the years I have taught the Federalist Papers more times than I can count and it has always been a challenge. This is not due … Continue reading Can We Teach the “Federalist Papers” Today?
J Tyler Syck is a Ph.D. candidate in American politics and political theory at the University of Virginia. He has also served as a fellow with the Bradley Foundation, UVA Democracy Initiative, and the Common Sense Society. Tyler received a … Continue reading John Quincy Adams and a Constitution of Virtue
