Essays
Judgment / September 3, 2026
Ask most people what separates a constitutional republic from a pure democracy and you'll usually get a list of mechanics. The Electoral College. The...
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There are three words at the end of the Tenth Amendment that most people never quote, and those three words change the entire meaning of the text. The...
Read the Equal Protection Clause one more time, slowly, without the assumptions that usually accompany it. It says no state shall deny to any person within...
Ask most people what James Madison meant by faction, and you will get an answer about political parties, aggrieved mobs, or the genius of a large and...
Every few years, someone reads Federalist No. 10 and walks away with the wrong lesson. They tell you James Madison feared faction, so we need more...
I keep hearing the same electoral reform proposals over and over. Ranked-choice voting. Automatic voter registration. Independent redistricting commissions...
Let me say this plainly. I believe in pushing power as close to the people as possible. But the United Kingdom's twenty-five-year experiment with devolution...
Most people misunderstand what representative government is for. They think it is a practical workaround. Since millions of citizens cannot gather in a...
Ask most people what the Establishment Clause means and you will get the same phrase: "separation of church and state." It rolls off the tongue like it is...
You hear the phrase everywhere now: democratic backsliding. It gets attached to populist election wins, voter ID laws, originalist judges, and any serious...