Alexander Hamilton

The writers of the Constitution sought an approach that balanced control between the states and the federal government.

Critics of Nicolás Maduro's capture would be on much stronger footing if they were originalists.

The political coalition that has formed under Trump’s banner has the potential to reshape American politics.

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton may be titans of the American Founding, but these two poles don't describe everything.

Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.

She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

We cannot divorce the independence of the executive branch from its substance.

The 1790s debate shows that, even when they aim at moral goods, tariffs abet cronyism and corruption.

The populist turn in our politics is best understood as a revival of old categories of political economy.

USAID grants may have cracked constitutional spending limits.

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, wealthy elite that goads such men on.

America’s only successful insurrection.

While letting justices serve during “good behavior” was designed to encourage impartiality, it now tends to promote the opposite effect.

Although the American tradition is broadly liberal, it is best understood as divided between two schools: classical and managerial liberalism.

America long ago rejected the trappings of monarchy in favor of republicanism, but many have wanted to have it both ways.

A grand strategy for a turbulent world.

Federal lighthouses symbolized a vigorous young nation barreling toward maturity.

A foundational flaw of the United States.

Interposition was a claim that American federalism needed to preserve some balance between state and national authority.