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America Is Living James Madison’s Nightmare

The Founders designed a government that would resist mob rule. They didn’t anticipate how strong the mob could become.

by Jeffrey Rosen via The Atlantic on September 12, 2018

The Second Amendment Does Not Transcend All Others

Its text and context don’t ensure an unlimited individual right to bear any kind and number of weapons by anyone.

by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on March 8, 2018

Medical Mystery: James Madison's Sudden Collapse

The Father of the U.S. Constitution fought a life-long physical battle, too.

by Allan B. Schwartz via Philly.com on January 24, 2018

History Frowns on Partisan Gerrymandering

On the eve of a major redistricting case at the Supreme Court, a look back at what the nation's founders would have thought.

by Michael Waldman, Cliff Sloan via Washington Post on October 1, 2017

A “Thorough Deist?” The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin

Historian Thomas S. Kidd examines the tension between Benjamin Franklin's deism and his frequent religious rhetoric

by Thomas S. Kidd via Age of Revolutions on June 5, 2017

Constitutional Originalism and History

Does the most historically minded school of constitutional law push history aside?

by Jonathan Gienapp via Process: A Blog for American History on March 20, 2017

Delegates on the floor at the Democratic National Convention at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, August 26, 1964.

How to Steal an Election

The crazy history of nominating Conventions.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on June 27, 2016

How Corrupt Are Our Politics?

A review of Zephyr Teachout's "Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United."

by David Cole via New York Review of Books on September 25, 2014

How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment

The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun.

by Michael Waldman via Politico Magazine on May 19, 2014

Fisher Ames, Founding Father and arch-foe of democracy.

Died on the 4th of July

Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”

by Stephen B. Tippins via The American Conservative on July 3, 2012

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