An Introduction to a Proposal for Renewal We face a constitutional moment — a point in time when deep-seated flaws of a constitutional system are revealed for all to see and when the work of reform, renewal, reconstitution must begin.The experience of the entire Trump Presidency, a presidency that has…

A Catholic princeling and a paranoid Quaker walk into a room and the resulting kerfuffle is the 1960 Presidential Election. Beyond the overwhelming duel of personalities between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhous Nixon, there was one omnipresent concern, the former’s religion, his Catholicism. John F. Kennedy was only the…

The United States Senate is America’s institutional Sword of Damocles. It’s shadow looms large because it has, by and large, become the source of American gridlock and the embodiment of American political dysfunction. The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body has become a daycare for presidential hopefuls and a graveyard for legislation…

Have you looked at ever-increasing executive power and ever atrophying legislative competency and thought, “There’s got to be a better way?” Well boy howdy, let me say I have just the thing for you — separative semi-presidentialism. Before we move onto what separative semi-presidentialism means, some explanations are in order…

When we tell the story of America, it is generally contained in a single linear and straightforward narrative. A single strand with a distinctive WASPy sheen, a single strand that hopes to bind together a diverse and discordant country, a single strand that only succeeds in strangling one truth. That…

We are in an ideological monsoon, an era that is seemingly dominated by either red flags or brown shirts — an alternative is always tantalizing. An ideological response to an ideological crisis. …

One would expect the defeat of the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, usually referred to as FDR’s Court Packing Plan, to be a textbook example of the Pivotal Politics theorem. Wherein the median vote is the deciding vote in a left-right spectrum, which in the ’30s Senate, that means…

Perfect bicameralism is far from perfect. When the two chambers of a bicameral legislature have the same authorities, responsibilities, and stature, it complicates practically all legislative matters. It slows the law-making process and creates ambiguity regarding who is responsible for the good conduct of the legislature on the whole. And…