James Madison, in Federalist Papers No. 10 and No. 51, highlighted the dangers of factions and the need for balanced representation. He argued that a large republic with diverse interests can prevent ...

The good folks at ProPublica remain on the Judges Gone Wild beat. Their latest subject, to the surprise of absolutely nobody, is Judge Aileen Cannon, the former president*’s concierge judge down in ...

When I celebrated my birthday on Sept. 17 growing up on our family farm, I didn’t know I shared the day with Uncle Sam. On that day in 1787, our nation’s founders signed America’s highest law of the ...

Nowhere is the complete lack of democracy more apparent than in the system to elect the president of the United States: the ...

The Constitution is not a system of coequal branches. Congress is the dominant branch of our government. How, then, did this ...