I tell my students that the present often shapes our understanding of the past. In a short piece at The Panorama, veteran American historian James Banner Jr. writes about how Liz Cheney’s resistance to Donald Trump and her defense of […]
United States Constitution
“There were probably more constitutional constraints operating on George III in 1776 than now operate on the US president”
Here is constitutional historian Grace Mallon responding to the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump vs. United States. Early American historian David Waldstreicher’s response is on the mark: One wonders why U.S. history departments “sold off constitutional history to Poli Sci […]
Is an Article V rewriting of the U.S. Constitution in the near future?
It’s possible. Here is historian James Banner at The Bulwark: Radical conservative activists are working with Republican state legislators to trigger an extraordinary special convention to rewrite the Constitution of the United States. The possibility of it actually happening is […]
Does Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of…the U.S. Constitution?
A lot of people grow tired of me calling this stuff out. I grow tired of having to call it out. But somebody’s got to do it. This stuff is not going away anytime soon. If the words of the […]
There is no moral or constitutional equivalence between the presidencies of Joe Biden and Donald Trump
What happens when party loyalty and a cult of personality trumps our loyalty to the checks and balances built into the United States Constitution? We have a Constitutional crisis like the one we are currently experiencing. Here is Robert Kagan […]