Constitution Day was this week, established by an act of Congress in 2004. It supplanted Citizenship Day which had been set for Sept. 19 but I can’t recall ever hearing about that growing up. Upon ...
A certain kind of American never tires of explaining that the country is a republic, not a democracy. Exactly what the distinction means can be obscure, but the drift is clear. “Democracy” is catching ...
Keeping the Republic: A Defense of American Constitutionalism, by Dennis Hale and Marc Landy (University of Kansas Press, 2023). The United States Constitution is under attack—again. The chorus of ...