The “originalism” of the sort promoted by Chief Justice John Roberts would make a straitjacket of the Constitution and deprive Americans of the ability to govern themselves.
Tag: Constitution
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Filibustering the Republic
Through the filibuster, the two parties have created conditions where it appears neither side ever gets what it wants. But make no mistake: Both are getting what they need.
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Clarence Thomas Is Right on Rights
Government cannot create our rights any more than it can create the truth. It is charged only with recognizing and protecting them.
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Polemics & Exchanges: March 2026
Chronicles Assistant Editor John Howting responds to critics of his February editorial.
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Fake Conservatives Attack ‘Chronicles’
Critics of our magazine muddle their account of our supposed sins and expose their own affinity with the censors on the woke left.
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Heritage Is Better-Off With Kevin Roberts—and Without the Malcontents
Kevin Roberts fights to conserve our Western patrimony—something his detractors do not care about. Good riddance to them!
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When State Resistance Meets the Constitution
In the age of immigration conflict, questions of constitutional supremacy, the extent of executive power, and whether we will live according to the rule of law are all coming to a head.
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Fraud, the Fed, and Unchecked Power
Trump’s animosity toward Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has a natural basis—the Fed is a Wilsonian progressive institution created to act outside the Constitution’s separation of powers.
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Nigeria’s Troubles Are Constitutional
Intervention in a country that lacks a reliable understanding of what it is makes little sense and can do very little good.
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How Trump Changed Conservatism
Trump understood something the conservative movement didn’t: Ideas are worthless if you no longer live in a world where they can be realized.
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Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt Takes the Left to Court
In his new book, Senator Eric Schmitt shows that with determination and intelligent legal arguments, the right can mount an effective legal offense against the left.
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Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Non-citizens From Census
Eliminating the influence of non-citizens in our elections means not counting them in the census.
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Unwelcome Allies
Although it made sense to support Trump’s decision to bomb Iran, the narrative surrounding it from neoconservatives, and especially their attacks of the bombing’s critics, are tired and preposterous.
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American History and the Lecturer’s Art
Walter McDougall’s Gems of American History is that rare academic work teaching that history is not a puzzle to be solved or a grievance to be aired, but a trial to be endured.
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Saving the Court from Itself
Checking the current “corps of sappers & miners” as Thomas Jefferson once called the judiciary, may be the only way to save the Constitution and America.
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John Roberts Is Responsible for the High Court’s Self-Delegitimization
Roberts has a history of prioritizing—in ham-handed and self-aggrandizing fashion—what he believes to be the judiciary’s integrity.
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The Kritarchy Strikes Back
Judicial partisans undermine the rule of law and the separation of powers by attempting to stymie Trump’s executive orders.
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About Islam: A Letter to President Trump
Mr. President, the danger of radical Islam is still with us, and while that danger cannot be completely eradicated, it is both possible and necessary to act decisively to reduce it as much as possible.
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Trump Pulls the Rip Cords on the Administrative State
Members of the vast apparatus of the American bureaucracy need to internalize this constitutional truth: There is no fourth branch of the federal government.
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American Revanchism
It is well past time for Americans on the right to stop calling their movement conservative. Before we can have anything to conserve, we must first take it back.
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Whose is the Wrong Rally?
By telling people shouting “Jesus Is Lord” that they didn’t belong at her rally, Kamala Harris demonstrated the deep divide over religion between the parties.
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Joe Biden’s Executive Amnesty Is Illegal, Unjust and Self-Defeating
Biden’s amnesty is blatantly, flagrantly and offensively unconstitutional. Only Congress, not the president, can “establish a uniform rule of naturalization.”
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What Europeans and Americans Really Want
Authoritarians who have managed to entrench their control over the United States and countries in Europe need to be defeated once and for all.
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How a U.S. Federal Government Default Might Play Out
The recent tax rebellion by the Canadian province of Saskatchewan may provide a model for how U.S. states could push back against a federal government that has spent far beyond its means.
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An America Worth Celebrating
Why am I and, apparently, most Americans feeling this lack of enthusiasm over our nation's fast-approaching 250th birthday?
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The Executive Branch Is Deliberately Failing Americans
America cannot afford another four years of an open-borders Democrat administration.
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Remembering John Taylor of Caroline
John Taylor of Caroline was a man of the American Revolution in whom the “Spirit of ’76” informed a conservative approach to understanding the powers of government.
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Calls for a New Constitutional Convention are Beside the Point
Leftist control of all our power structures, not defects in our charter, are at the heart of our current woes. Application of muscle from the top should be our top priority in trying to restore an American republic.
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Through the Woods to Grandmother’s Charter We Go
The sacred American heritage of consent requires exercise if we want it to be meaningful and to preserve our ability to govern ourselves.
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FBI and Justice Department Are Greatest Threat to Constitution
The Constitution was never intended to justify surveillance and political interference by un-elected bureaucrats.