Showing posts with label Madison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Madison. Show all posts
Sunday, November 8, 2026

Madison, Trump, and the 2026 Midterm

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Many posts have discussed the Constitution .   William F. Connelly Jr. at The Richmond Times-Dispatch   [ links added ] Before the electi...
Friday, March 13, 2026

What Is Madisonianism?

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  Many   posts  have  discussed  the  Founding .  Jay Cost, "What Does It Mean to Be Madisonian? at AEI: Today, the word Madisonian is...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Civic Virtue and the Republic

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Many   posts  have  discussed   volunteering  and  civic virtue .  Robert P. George at AEI: The Constitution was famously defended by Madiso...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Presidents and the Press: The Early Years

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  Many   posts  have  discussed  the  relationship  between  presidents  and the  press .  Todd Andrlik at Mount Vernon: Washington read new...
Monday, July 14, 2025

James Madison, Majority Leader

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 At AEI, Jay Cost writes that Madison was effectively the first House majority leader . To be clear, Madison never held that title in the s...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Court Strikes Down Tariffs

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Many   posts  have  dealt  with  tariffs  and  trade . Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic : The debate over President Donald Trump’s tariffs...
Friday, April 11, 2025

A Dark Direction

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Many posts have discussed   presidential power .  Editorial at The Dispatch: [N]owhere is the evidence of the new right’s willful decline m...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Spitting on James Madison's Grave

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Many posts have discussed the separation of powers , which is rapidly eroding. Carl Hulse and Catie Edmondson at NYT: The Republican-led C...
Saturday, November 2, 2024

Madison and Virtue

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  Many   posts  have  discussed   civic virtue . James Madison, June 20, 1788  But I go on this great republican principle, that the people ...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

Tariffs Are Bad

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 Phillip W. Magness at Cato: James Madison viewed tariffs as necessary to raise revenue but was caught off-guard by early attempts to enact...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Civic Virtue

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Many   posts  have  discussed   volunteering  and  civic virtue . Brooks, Arthur C. "America's Crisis of Civic Virtue." Journa...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Dodgeball and Deliberation

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Don Wolfensberger at The Hill : There was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when House members were drilled by their leaders at the begi...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Is Maladministration an Impeachable Offense? Madison Said no.

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Many  posts have  discussed   impeachment , including the  impeachment  of  former officials . Records of the Federal Convention [1:85; Madi...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Madison and Campaign Finance Reform

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Michael J. Malbin * | 23.5 | Article | Citation: Michael J. Malbin, A Neo-Madisonian Perspective on Campaign Finance Reform, Institutions, ...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Mass Incapacitation and Appointment of House Members

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  In case of a terror attack or other disaster that causes a mass incapacitation of the House , the law provides for expedited special elect...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Madison v. AOC

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Greg Weiner at NYT: But if disappointed progressives are looking for a Democrat to blame, they should consider directing their ire toward on...
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Constitutional Obligation

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Many   posts  have  discussed  the  Founding . Greg Weiner at The Constitutionalist: When teaching Edmund Burke, I often pose this question:...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Republican Virtue and 1/6

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Robert Kagan at WP: As it happens, however, that is what the American experiment in republican democracy requires. It is what the Framers me...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Statesmanship

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Daniel Stid at National Affairs : To understand why even these acts of statesmanship appear increasingly rare in American politics, we can ...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

Thanksgiving and Constitutional Gratitude

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 Yuval Levin and Adam J. White at National Review : George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789 , like so many other aspects of hi...