President Obama’s scorn for the Constitution has been expressed most recently in his "recess" appointments of members of the National Labor Relations Board and the chairmanship of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a man whose political success is largely attributable to the aura of befuddled incompetence he uses to disarm his adversaries, was a failed Watergate baby.

I can't remember a more stunning rebuke of a president by a congressional leader than Speaker John Boehner's refusal to agree to Barack Obama's demand that he summon a joint session of Congress to hear the president's latest speech on the economy. It illustrates several of the weaknesses of this presidency.

Rather than await the decision on the Affordable Care Act, President Obama decided to attack preemptively with error-filled claims about the place of judicial review in our constitutional system. Judicial review springs from the duty of a court, when deciding a case before it, to enforce the Constitution over a conflicting act of Congress.

Reagan falls just behind Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Jefferson, and T.R. on our list of greatest leaders. The passage of time has given scholars a newfound appreciation.

Tom Miller's speech at the Pioneer Institute's health care policy luncheon and The Great Experiment book launch on March 13, 2012.

Obama has effectively nullified the War Powers Resolution, which requires the president to end hostilities within 60 days (with another 30 days to withdraw troops) unless he has received Congress's authorization. His administration's flouting of the WPR displays Obama's fundamental hostility to the regular workings of the political process established by the Constitution.

Where if anywhere are we getting adult leadership on major public policy issues this year? The answer is where the Founding Fathers seem to have least expected it, from the House of Representatives, and specifically from its Republican leaders.