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“Upon More Mature Reflection”: Hamilton’s About-Face on Removal in 1789
Gary J. Schmitt is a senior fellow in Social, Cultural and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. During the First Congress’s debate in which James Madison and others defended the ideas that the president had the constitutional power to remove department heads “at pleasure,” one of Madison’s opponents noted that, in Federalist #77, Alexander… Continue reading “Upon More Mature Reflection”: Hamilton’s About-Face on Removal in 1789
Philip K. Howard, Saving Can-Do: How to Revive the Spirit of America. Garden City, NY: Rodin Books, 2025
David Lewis Schaefer, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, College of Holy Cross It is widely known-or it should be-that economic progress in America, and even our nation’s military security, are seriously hampered by a surfeit of litigation and excessive bureaucratic regulation. To take just one example culled from the latest headlines: Although the U.S. played… Continue reading Philip K. Howard, Saving Can-Do: How to Revive the Spirit of America. Garden City, NY: Rodin Books, 2025
What Does the Marque and Reprisal Clause Say about War Powers?
Jacob Rodriguez is a graduate student in political science at Baylor University. In late January, Senator Mike Lee (R–Utah) suggested an unorthodox idea to address the problem of drugs and violence along the southern border: to use letters of marque and reprisal to attack and weaken drug cartels. Writing on X (Twitter), Lee explained that… Continue reading What Does the Marque and Reprisal Clause Say about War Powers?
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