U.S. History

And yet I feel obliged to withhold my approval ... [for] the appropriation of public funds...

It is a common fallacy that if a person is successful in business, they will be a good politician. This is dangerously naive.

In spite of rising debt and worries about long term trends in affordability, new American houses and apartments are larger than they've ever been before. 

Chris Calton discusses the political schisms exacerbated in the aftermath of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry.

The English Levellers were the world's first self-consciously libertarian mass movement.

What should be done to end the Progressives influence over government and the economy and to promote the public good?

As experience now makes clear, the War Powers Resolution did not fix the problem of presidential usurpation of Congress's war powers. 

Truman, without consent or knowledge of Congress, declared war on Korea. Congress condoned his usurpation of its exclusive constitutional power.

So long as he uses a "national security" ploy, a president can raise taxes without so much as a debate in Congress. 

The authors of the Constitution were clear that the power to declare war was limited to Congress. It's important to understand why.