Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Nixon's visit to China: Driving a wedge between China and the Soviet Union

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This might seem a strange way to begin a blog post about American diplomacy in the Nixon era, but the year 1949 was significant for both t...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

What did the Constitution say about slavery?

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The original Constitution never used the words "slave" or slavery," but it sure did talk about them ... In the Constituti...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Who can vote in the United States?: The voting rights amendments

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" ... that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth ." - Closing lines of  Abr...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

Why people will always find the executive branch more interesting than the other two branches

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"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty l...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

How to prevent tyranny: Separation of powers and checks & balances

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"The political liberty of the [citizen] is a tranquillity of mind, arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order t...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

5 limits on presidential power that you never heard of

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"For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other ....
Friday, December 15, 2017

The tyrannical police state: The worst nightmare of the Founding Fathers

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"A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee justice, and be found in another state, shall, on...