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What Ever Happened to Compromise?

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UPDATE: Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson discussed compromise and Congressional gridlock with Andrea Mitchell at the National Constitution Center on May 2. Listen to the full podcast: Is compromise a dirty word? Speaker John Boehner spoke for many politicians running for office when he declared “I reject the word.” In the past, political leaders in… [Continue Reading]

Tags: Barack Obama John Boehner Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act redistricting Ronald Reagan Tax Reform Act Tea Party Tip O'Neill

Federalism in 1868 and 2012

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Like the issue of civil rights in the 1860s and ‘70s, healthcare in 2012 has become the terrain upon which the battle over centralized power is being fought.

Tags: Andrew Johnson Civil Rights Act of 1866 Health Care Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Robert J. Kaczorowski Slavery

The secret life of the Commerce Clause

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The want of a central authority over commercial affairs was one of the major weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, and a central animating purpose behind the Constitutional Convention that convened in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787.

Tags: Articles of Confederation Commerce Clause Congressional Budget Office Federalism founders framers James Madison James Wilson Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The Constitutional Sources Project

Equality: are we there yet?

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While the Supreme Court was hearing history-making arguments on the Affordable Care Act, delegates and supporters of Vision 2020 made organizational history in Washington as 150 women and men attended a White House briefing Tuesday on domestic policy issues.

Tags: civil liberties Michelle Obama Tina Tchen Vision 2020 Women's History Month

Is the health care mandate on life support?

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The centerpiece of the new federal health care law, and its most controversial part – the individual insurance mandate – looked to be doomed after the first hour of the Supreme
Court’s hearing on it Tuesday.

Tags: Donald B. Verrilli Jr. Michael A. Carvin Paul D. Clement Peter Jennings Project