And in fact, quite often, the Constitution intentionally acts as a brake on majoritarianism. It creates structures, ...

House Republicans are trying to avoid letting the Senate jump ahead and take the steam out of the House’s budget ...

For a week in 1964, the jail was the epicenter of America's civil rights movement, as Martin Luther King Jr. and several ...

This paper identifies the legal problems with many of the most prominent actions: freezing funding, amending or repealing rules, and denying citizenship to children born in the United States.

The big debates were about apportioning House and Senate seats, which led to the famous Great Compromise ... The Senate’s filibuster rightly comes in for its share of blame, but that cannot ...

Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard appears to have cemented her new political home in the GOP, winning Senate confirmation ...

Former President Joe Biden’s departure from the political scene is not just the end of a historical career or a political era. It may represent the last gasp of the founders’ view of a ...

As abominable as their historical counterparts frequently were, audiences around the world have always been fascinated with ...