As election day approaches, it’s essential to revisit the fundamentals of our government, principles we learned in our civics ...

It’s one thing to pledge to “ensure a peaceful and orderly transition,” as Biden did. It’s quite another to proceed as though ...

Coming into the 2024 presidential election, an overwhelming majority of Americans agreed that “democracy is on the ballot” ...

Congratulations to President Donald Trump on his victory. Kamala Harris and Democrats must now help progressives accept the ...

Bitcoin is a constitution enforced by code, immune to poetic human misinterpretations. If the founding fathers were alive ...

There were fiercely competing visions when the Founders gathered at the Constitutional ... were not designing a democracy; they were designing a democratic republic with the branches resting ...

No, it isn’t. America is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. And words matter; labels matter. Truth matters. A republic is rooted in law and order and births a government that is ...

In 1789, electors chosen by ten states cast ballots and elected George Washington as our first President of the United States.  America’s first election would not fit the modern definition of a ...

David Hegg, “Foundations of Democracy,” commentary, Oct. 20. As I have pointed out here before, we do not live in a democracy and the founders of this country […] ...

In other words, a republic was a state governed by ... This was “pure democracy” or “simple and perfect democracy,” a theoretical constitution identified by Aristotle and mentioned by ...

Some have argued that this variation and decentralization could, in the event of another contested result, pose a danger to ...

Corporate Personhood is the primary constitutional heresy that fueled the rise of the oligarchy. Its original source, believe ...