There are many good reasons our government is based on three “separate but equal branches.” The men who wrote our Constitution 250 years ago had just fought a bloody war against an incredibly powerful ...
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa told Parliament yesterday that a decision and statement made by the Speaker amounted to a ...
OPINION: It is impossible to think of a major military action that has been so poorly justified to Congress and the public as ...
Bill 1’s pre-emptive, systematic use of the notwithstanding clause is a vivid case. Meant as an exceptional tool, used with ...
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Checks and balances are dead

Checks and balances, our teachers taught us, were America's ace in the hole. Human beings are highly fallible and easily ...
Unprogrammed appropriations, as embedded in recent General Appropriations Acts, represent a grave constitutional distortion ...
Livingston's Eva Lighthiser and her 19 co-plaintiffs from around the United States are asking judges to reverse a trio of fossil fuel-centric executive orders Trump issued last year.
At year’s end, we lament the decline of constitutionalism — respect for and adherence to the separation of powers, checks and ...
Every nation that takes its Constitution seriously must, from time to time, pause to reflect on it, not merely as a legal ...
A Theory of 'Eidocracy'For centuries, political philosophy has grappled with the fragility of freedom—how power, even when ...