As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The accumulation of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you think of the President of the United States, you probably imagine global summits, nuclear codes, and history-shaping ...

Q: Why Do Presidents Seem More Powerful Today, than Historically? A. The powers of the presidency are written in the U.S. Constitution in Article II. Those provisions are unchanged, so in theory the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How much power does the president really have? fotojog-iStock/Getty Images Plus Those who wrote and wrangled over America’s ...

Major Questions is a recurring series by Adam White, which analyzes the court’s approach to administrative law, agencies, and the lower courts. Please note that the views of outside contributors do ...

War is government’s gravest undertaking, but defining war is difficult, declaring it is rare, and making constitutional values and procedures pertinent to it is problematic. This has been made more so ...

Those who wrote and wrangled over America’s Constitution might be troubled by the second presidency of Donald J. Trump. While almost all modern presidents flex their muscles in the initial stages of ...