The United States of America is a federal republic: a federation of states governed by written constitutions,” wrote Russell Kirk. The Constitution created a republican form of government. A ...

Is there diversity in the American Constitution? Michael Barone explains the origin of his theory. In this episode of "The Civic Discourse Project" lecture series, Michael D. Barone, a senior ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...

Part II of The Collective-Action Constitution develops a collective-action theory of the Constitution's federal structure and identifies limits of this theory. Chapter Three examines the states' ...

Anyone who has taken an introductory American politics class probably remembers the way that America's system of federalism has been divided by scholars into "eras" based on understandings about the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Larry Garber, an adjunct professor at the George Washington University (GWU) Elliott School of International Affairs, talked about the provisions for ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Resistance is not futile, although it might seem that way at the moment ...

What is your view on constitution review? We analogously have a huge “worn out cloth,” but we are patching it anew in 39 places. Is it useful to patch a cloth that is worn out in 39 places and expect ...

Maybe the Journal's editors need to smoke whatever they must be smoking in the White House and chill out a bit about the Obama administration's disregard for federal drug laws ("The Beltway Choom Gang ...

Tensions between Nigeria’s central and state governments have long been the fault lines of its federal system; it is like a simmering struggle between authority and autonomy. The 1999 Constitution, ...