The Dobbs ruling is a victory for what students of government call the separation of powers.
It’s official, the Supreme Court of the United States has officially overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, ending the nationwide constitutional right to an abortion after more than 50 years. The decision is historic in more ways than one, as in the lead up there was an unprecedented leak of an internal draft, threatening the...
Today’s progressivism is a bore. The constant demand for more and more government spending places progressivism on a path toward destruction. Debt, inflation, and a diminished existence for the citizenry — that’s all the result of constant cries for more and more spending and government action. Shouldn’t we be asking more profound questions about what...
Our ability to self-govern is the enduring question we continually grapple with yet struggle to answer decisively.
For the average American, disconnect from the federal government remains exorbitant. It should be with lawmakers running up obscene amounts of debt on top of the nonstop partisan bickering. Yet, even now, all is not lost in representative government, thanks mostly due to the work of state legislatures. This is a point made particularly well...
On April 28, President Biden addressed Congress and the nation to sell a spending package, allegedly aimed at improving the nation’s infrastructure, with a $2.25 trillion price tag. In many ways, this address felt like Obama 2.0, and yet another liberal president was selling us economic stimulus with the promise of “shovel-ready” projects. In his...
We’ve turned every federal election into a potential catastrophe in someone’s mind. We’ve made the stakes too high.
A truly federal form of government gives states, communities, and individuals lots of room to breathe. It promotes diversity and competition. Do we have a truly federal form of government?
Bashing the Electoral College may be therapeutic for liberal Democrats. But if they want to respond to the 2016 election in an effective way, they should rediscover the virtues of federalism.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed the states of North Carolina and Tennessee a victory on Wednesday when it struck down a Federal Communications Commission rule that pre-empted the states’ regulation of municipal broadband service within their borders. The three-judge panel said that the FCC overstepped its authority. The ruling noted that municipalities...
It's time for Americans to remember the underappreciated and misunderstood federal structure of the United States.
