When the founding fathers signed the US Constitution on September 17, 1787, they laid the foundations for a national government that was strong, but not omnipotent. The federal government was divided ...

Joseph D. Steinfield is an attorney living in Keene and Jaffrey. He can be reached at [email protected]. The Preamble to the Constitution explains the document was intended to promote “the general ...

This has all the makings of a constitutional crisis. According to law professor Amanda Frost, “a constitutional crisis occurs when one branch of government, usually the executive, ‘blatantly, ...

President Joe Biden’s proposed constitutional amendment, “The No One is Above the Law Amendment,” seeks to restore the fundamental principle of American Constitutionalism by effectively overturning ...

On July 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court discreetly issued an emergency order permitting the Trump administration to move forward with sweeping layoffs across federal agencies. The unsigned ruling did ...

The 13 American colonies embraced government 'of laws, not of men,' and they strove to limit the power of future presidents.

The harrowing question of what happens if a president defies a federal court order “has hung over the United States since President Trump’s second term began,” said Ian Millhiser in Vox, and “now that ...

On Sunday, January 5, president-elect Donald J. Trump filed an appeal seeking to stay criminal proceedings against him based on claims of presidential immunity. This legal maneuver, just weeks before ...

The president of the United States appears to have long ago forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War not merely to secure their independence from the British monarchy but to establish a ...

We all have eyes. Those of us of a certain age, in most cases, have attained a distinct level of knowledge, thus, a modicum of intellectual intelligence. So, tell me, why are we allowing the ...

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest — forces that look like ...