Commentary The website Politico recently ran a feature by two academic commentators who think constitutional amendments are on the horizon. They tell us: “We’ve studied the history of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution and found that most of them come in waves after long periods of constitutional inaction. What’s more, those short bursts of…

Commentary The most important checks and balances in our constitutional system derive from the split authority between the federal government and the states. As the federal government has grown in power, state “pushback”—which James Madison called “interposition”—has become more important than ever. In my March 14, 2021, Epoch Times essay, I listed common methods of…

Commentary When a public emergency strikes, officials respond in panic. They often don’t remember what they learned from previous emergencies. When a public emergency ends, everyone breathes a sigh of relief. Eager to move ahead with their lives, decision makers neglect to change the law to embody what they have just learned. During World War…