How much authority does the Congress have to direct the way a war is waged? John Yoo debates Bruce Ackerman over between Congress and the president over wartime authority.

With little to do, most vice presidents have spent their time in office doing little, and the republic is none the worse off for the little they did.

Until those on the cultural Left accept the fact that religious principles have nurtured and maintained our constitutional democracy, they will remain on the fringes of our national politics.

Judge Robert Bork of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has long been a lonely but courageous voice within the American legal community, arguing vigorously against the imperialistic tendencies of the American judiciary, and for a return to a traditional, limited view of judicial...

Judges of this generation, and much more, of the next generation, are being educated to engage in really heroic adventures in policy making.

The weakest part of our political system is the presidential nomination process. And it's not coincidental that it's the part of the federal system that finds least guidance in the Constitution.

Theauthorsrelate current arguments to traditional ideas of republicanism and democracy and compare them with thoseof our Revolution, Civil War, and civil rights and suffrage movements.