President Donald Trump’s claim, in a stunning Executive Order issued on February 17, of constitutional power to withhold ...

"Among their chief purposes, the American colonists fought a revolution, and the Framers drafted the Constitution, to protect what Madison called the 'sacred' principle of congressional power over the ...

Opinion: The American colonists fought a revolution, and the Framers drafted the Constitution, to protect this “sacred” principle which, today, is under assault by President Trump.

It took many centuries of advances, threats, retreats and a Civil War before the English Constitution secured for Parliament the appropriations power – the power of the purse w ...

A UChicago tradition since 1972, the Ryerson Lecture features prominent UChicago faculty members who have made “research ...

It took many centuries of advances, threats, retreats, and a Civil War before the English Constitution secured for Parliament ...

Understand that if Trump succeeds the result will not be the harmless resurrection of a quaint jurisprudential artifact.

Noted as much for his pioneering studies of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli as for his revisionist accounts of Francis ...

If there has been a single transformative event in English political history since the Norman Conquest, it is the Revolution of 1688. Yet who now knows or cares about it? For some time it has barely ...