Americans often adopted certain ideas only as a consequence of actions and debate: preconceived ideas did not drive or shape the founding.

The French socialist is intelligent, knowledgeable, and decent, with a very firm grasp of unreality.

Like the novel, written constitutions tell the story of a place and people.

Justice Kavanaugh presented a view of precedent that centers on republican self-government.

How did the Liberal Democrats end nearly 200 years of Tory control in North Shropshire?

There is nothing the Court can do that will have democratic legitimacy. It ought therefore to be content with constitutional legitimacy.

Licorice Pizza depicts an era when parents were often absent and kids became small adults.

Churchill understood that popular sovereignty poses hazards for the very liberty of which popular sovereignty is an expression.

Can we have an environmentalism that benefits both human society and the planet?

People should bear the consequences of their own decisions, but in practice it is very difficult to arrange our complex world for them to do so.