President Obama seems to be doing everything in his power, and quite a few things that are not legitimately within his power, to bring about a constitutional crisis. He has repeatedly suspended laws ...

This holiday season, we're grateful for the institutions that have preserved our liberty — even when they frustrate us.

Amendments to make the Senate, the Electoral College and our voting systems more fair would take years to accomplish, but with hard work they are achievable.

Americans continue to express low confidence in our national political institutions including the presidency - the most “popular” with 38% of respondents to a recent Gallup poll. Americans continue to ...

As the Supreme Court refuses to impose timelines on Governors but warns against constitutional paralysis, and as the ...

There is a predictable pattern in U.S. politics: Ambitious legislation gets watered down or blocked, while the courts use judicial review, which isn’t in the Constitution, to throw out new laws.

Early in my career, I wrote a paper on "constitutional theory and the faces of power." It borrowed from an older concept in political science to reflect on the less examined ways in which ...

The word ‘party’ in the concept "political parties" is key to understanding the origins and meaning of political parties. But after almost 30 years of one-party rule in this country the word ‘party’ ...

Seek ye first the kingdom of a new constitution for Nigeria and every other thing – prosperity, stability, security, electoral rectitude, moral integrity, etc – that have largely eluded the country ...