So, if only Congress can impose taxes, how can the president impose tariffs? Here is the backstory. However one characterizes ...

Let’s call it what it is: a constitutional collapse. Congress’s abdication of its constitutional powers and responsibilities to an executive branch run amok — or, you might say, run-a-Musk — would ...

Trump is different. His defiance lies in plain view. There is no dignity. There is no restraint. There is only power. The ...

America’s founding fathers — having just won independence from a monarchy — designed the Constitution to prevent a dangerous ...

The crux of Jefferson’s letter is his explanation that the First Amendment “thus builds a wall of separation between church ...

The Framers understood that part of human nature is to amass, entrench and ultimately abuse power, so there must be ...

In his first week in office, President Trump displayed an unusually expansive vision of executive authority. He challenged ...

With an aggressive reading of the Constitution, the president aims to upend the balance of power in Washington.

The teachings of Jesus Christ and the writings of James Madison reconcile strikingly well, a Brookings Institute senior ...

District Representatives Earlier this month, I joined more than 120 of my colleagues in introducing H.R. 38, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. In 1791, the Second Amendment to the ...