The Legal Precedent of Impeachment Over the more than 230 years of U.S. history, Articles of Impeachment have been filed by the House of Representatives against three American Presidents: Andrew Johnson in 1868; Richard Nixon in 1974; and William Clinton in 1998. The charges...
America’s Different Democracy, or How Change Has Come to America America’s government is a Constitutional democracy that differs significantly from most other democracies, many of which do not have written constitutions and the majority of which are parliamentary. In parliamentary democracies, the country’s head-of-state is...
California Dreaming Californians for the last several decades have dreamed of making their State an American Utopia. And California’s governments accordingly have taken actions intended to help its citizens realize those Utopian dreams. The steps taken by government action and ballot-box referenda have shaped...
The Faithless Electors of America's Electoral College Americans have been complaining about the compromises that went into creation of the Electoral College for centuries … almost since the first days of the Republic. An editorial headline in the August 30th New York Times captured the...
Laws, Regulations … and Conservative Values Bret Stephens wrote an editorial in the New York Times on July 26th that addressed concerns he has with something he termed “conservative nationalism,” which he defined as nationalism cloaked in the mantle of conservatism. In the editorial, Stephens...
