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John Marshall, Judicial Supremacy, and a Post-Ginsburg Court

September 28, 2020
Andrew D. Carico

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has rocked the nation. It has inserted the Court, whether they like it or not, into the epicenter of the presidential election. Yet, her passing in the heat of a presidential election crystalizes a deeper problem in American politics: The Supreme Court’s outsized influence in the […]

Bridling the Unbridled: The American Constitution and The Presidency of Donald Trump

February 20, 2017
Andrew D. Carico

Whatever one may think of President Trump, perhaps the greatest hope for Making America Great Again is not found in a particular president but in the American people’s own charter of government: The Constitution of the United States. H.L. Mencken famously defined democracy as “the theory that the common people know what they want, and […]

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