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United States Constitution

Liz Cheney as James A. Bayard

John Fea   |  November 8, 2024

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 […]

“There were probably more constitutional constraints operating on George III in 1776 than now operate on the US president”

John Fea   |  July 2, 2024

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?

John Fea   |  September 14, 2022

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?

John Fea   |  August 15, 2022

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

John Fea   |  September 25, 2021

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 […]