Executive
The President’s Power to Terminate Treaties
At The American Conservative, Senator Rand Paul: The President Can Terminate Treaties Alone. From the introduction: When faced with questions relating to America’s role in the world, we would be wise to heed the advice of the Founders. George Washington urged...
President or King? Antifederalist Cato No. 4
Cato was one of the first Antifederalist writers to examine the executive branch. He predicted it would “tend either to the establishment of a vile and arbitrary aristocracy, or monarchy,” with a permanent class of elites ruling from on high. Path to Liberty: March 2,...
Top-5 Worst Executive Orders in History
The founders recognized that “there can be no liberty” when legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body of people. Yet, here we are today. These are the worst executive orders in history – and the hardest part is narrowing it down to...
President Biden’s Departmentalism
On Tuesday the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (an executive agency) issued a new eviction moratorium, substantially similar to the one that expired last week. Previously, in Alabama Association of Realtors v. DHHS, four Justices of the Supreme Court would have...