The American founders are justifiably famous for their political wisdom. So why did they build the strange contraption called ...

The clause was neither the subject of much debate during the Constitutional Convention nor was it a major topic of discussion during the ratification debates. James Madison, in his wrap-up of ...

That goal is included with No. 10 on the list, in which Trump vows to push for a constitutional amendment to impose ...

As John Adams saw the political world, there were essentially three main forms of government—monarchy, aristocracy, and ...

It would also be an exhaustive — and exhausting — undertaking to find a new system that would appease enough lawmakers, as ...

A mericans are headed to the polls today to cast their ballots in a crucial election. People are anxious, hopeful, and scared ...

At the Constitutional Convention ... suggested “maladministration,” but James Madison pointed out that this would destroy the president’s independence and make him dependent on the Senate.

Maybe it would be a good thing if the former president won the popular vote for once—as long as he doesn’t win the election.

It seems that every four years, we are told that, “This election is the most important election ever.” We have been ...

But though he had missed the Constitutional Convention and subsequent ... The vast majority were in the north, leading Virginians like James Madison to fear loss of influence for the state ...

Actually, the Electoral College was about both and more. Examining the perspective of John Dickinson, a delegate from Delaware and an architect of the Electoral College who neither distrusted the ...

One of the chief justifications for the Electoral College, advanced by its advocates, is that small, lightly populated states require protection for interests that would be overwhelmed by large ...