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How Not to Run the World

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Constitutionalism
Mar 23, 2025
Burnham’s Counterrevolution

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Constitutionalism
Mar 28, 2025
Why Legal Education Needs Abraham Lincoln

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Constitutionalism
Mar 26, 2025
Impeachment: Is Judge Boasberg Guilty of a “High . . . Misdemeanor?”

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Constitutionalism
Mar 25, 2025
Ending D.E.I. Is Only Half the Battle

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Constitutionalism
Mar 24, 2025
Trump’s Risky Reliance on the Alien Enemies Act

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Constitutionalism
Mar 21, 2025
State-Led Lawfare Eclipses Freedom-Preserving Federalism

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Constitutionalism
Mar 21, 2025
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Burnham’s Counterrevolution

Richard Reinsch reviews David T. Byrne's new biography of James Burnham.

Richard M. Reinsch II
Constitutionalism
Mar 28, 2025

How Not to Run the World

John Yoo examines Straussian approaches to foreign policy.

John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Mar 23, 2025

Trump’s Risky Reliance on the Alien Enemies Act

A symbolic show of resolve on illegal immigration could hamper Trump’s effort to revive the Monroe Doctrine.

John Yoo, Robert Delahunty
Constitutionalism
Mar 21, 2025

Trump’s Worthy Effort to Rein In ‘Independent’ Agencies

The Trump administration is making a bold and principled attempt to restore these wayward bodies to the control of the executive branch.

John Yoo & Robert Delahunty
Constitutionalism
Mar 3, 2025

Rational Nondelegation

John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Feb 27, 2025

Challenging the Claremont View of Birthright Citizenship

John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Feb 20, 2025

Trump And Vance Aren’t Defying The Constitution, They’re Following It

John Yoo, Robert Delahunty
Constitutionalism
Feb 12, 2025

Charles Kesler’s Struggle for the Founders’ Constitution

Richard M. Reinsch II
Constitutionalism
Feb 10, 2025

Trump Has Launched a Necessary Fight Over the President’s Spending Discretion

John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Feb 7, 2025

Causes Tending to Undermine a Democratic Republic

Richard Epstein
Constitutionalism
Jan 22, 2025
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Rational Nondelegation

John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Feb 27, 2025

What is an Establishment of Religion? And What Does Disestablishment Require?

Vincent Phillip Muñoz
Constitutionalism
Dec 16, 2024
Commentary
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Charles Kesler’s Struggle for the Founders’ Constitution

Richard M. Reinsch II
Constitutionalism
Feb 10, 2025

Trump Has Launched a Necessary Fight Over the President’s Spending Discretion

John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Feb 7, 2025

Causes Tending to Undermine a Democratic Republic

Richard Epstein
Constitutionalism
Jan 22, 2025

Natural Law vs. Positivism, Chapter 8

John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Dec 29, 2024

Trump and Foley Are Wrong on the TikTok Law

John Yoo
Constitutionalism
Jan 29, 2024
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WSJ: The Legal Theory Behind Trump’s Plan to Consolidate Power

WSJ: The Legal Theory Behind Trump’s Plan to Consolidate Power

Constitutionalism
Mar 11, 2025
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Constitutionalism
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John Yoo: Supreme Court Temporarily Allows Trump’s Freeze on USAID Payments

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Constitutionalism
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John Yoo: President Trump Is Trying to Restore Energy to the Executive

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Constitutionalism
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John Yoo: Trump Is Trying to ‘Restore the Energetic Executive That Our Founders Wanted’

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Constitutionalism
Feb 12, 2025
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