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Judgment / July 31, 2026

Habeas Corpus Is Not a Technicality — It’s How We Force the State to Prove It Knows What It’s Doing

Most people believe they already understand the Great Writ. They learned it as a civics trivia answer: a prisoner's right to be brought before a judge so...

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Impeachment Inflation: Why Using Our Ultimate Check as a Political Weapon Is Destroying It

The Framers handed us a precise constitutional instrument meant for the gravest moments of a republic's life, and we are now debasing it the same way...

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The Plebiscite Problem: When Majority Rule Abandons Judgment

There is a seductive idea that sits just beneath the surface of every debate about gridlock, polarization, and democratic reform. It whispers that if only...

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The Supreme Court’s Judgment Problem: How Marbury v. Madison Built a Constitutional Central Planner

Most of us were taught to revere Marbury v. Madison as a stroke of genius. The story goes that Chief Justice John Marshall, cornered by a hostile Jefferson...

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The Only Real Lobbying Reform Is a Government Small Enough to Talk To

Every election season, without fail, the same tired chorus rises from the television studios and the op-ed pages. A bill stalls in Congress, a...

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The Real Erosion of Self-Government Isn’t the Electoral College—It’s the Administrative State

You hear the phrase democratic erosion a lot these days, usually from people who are convinced the republic is slipping away because the wrong party won a...

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The Social Contract Is a Signed, Sealed Document — Not a Blank Check

The left has a nasty habit of turning every good idea into a weapon against liberty. The phrase "social contract" is one of them. Say those words today, and...

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The Twenty-Fifth Amendment Is Central Planning for the Presidency

Picture a quiet Tuesday morning in Washington. The vice president closes the door to the Cabinet Room, takes a seat at the center of the long mahogany...

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John Locke’s Lost Warning About Executive Power and the Judgment That Still Belongs to the People

Every schoolchild who has endured an American history class knows that John Locke gave us natural rights, the social contract, and the triad of life...

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The Convention of States Movement Is the Founders’ Solution to the Problem Washington Can’t Solve

The Constitution offers two paths to amendment, but most Americans only know one. Congress proposes, the states ratify - that path has been taken...