The vice presidency has become a useful part of American government.

The vice presidency--an office that was long the vermiform appendix of American government--has become a useful organ.

It is easy to predict that the Con-Con-Con effort will make little progress for an elusively simple reason: the basic condition that made the compromises of the 1787 convention possible do not exist today.

Walter Berns reviews Forrest McDonald's States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876.

The proportional-representation systems that the Justice Department is considering will not remedy violations to the 1965 Voting Rights Act or erase race from American politics.

A review of H. W. Brands's Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times.

Michael Greve's comments delivered at the Federalism Projects Supreme Court End of Term event.

Review of Living History, by Hillary Rodham Clinton, and The Clinton Wars, by Sidney Blumenthal.