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Practically speaking: Ideas for a more perfect union

Posted 1 month, 14 days ago.

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Colorado Senator Michael Bennet pointed out last fall that a higher percentage of people approve of America becoming a Communist country than approve of the way Congress is carrying out its business. Continue Reading

Tags: Bruce Springsteen Constitutional Convention Lyndon B. Johnson Malcolm Gladwell Michael Bennet Practically Speaking Ronald Reagan

Happy birthday, 25th Amendment!

Posted 3 months, 6 days ago.

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The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 wasn’t the first time the U.S. had to deal with presidential succession. In fact, there had already been seven times that a vice president assumed the presidency due to the president’s death. Continue Reading

Tags: Gerald Ford John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Succession Act Richard Nixon

Of Another Day and Another Romney: The Year When Conservative Republicans Proudly Accepted “Defeat”

Posted 3 months, 10 days ago.

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A little more than a decade ago, Edward Luttwak, the renowned military strategist, wrote a provocative essay in Foreign Affairs entitled, “Give War a Chance.” Continue Reading

Tags: Barry Goldwater Dwight Eisenhower Lyndon B. Johnson Mitt Romney Nelson Rockefeller Newt Gingrich Tea Party

Wanted, for President, in 2012: A Politician

Posted 4 months, 14 days ago.

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Yes, Americans have an inherent distrust of politicians (just as they do of journalists), but as the Gallup Poll tells us each year, they remain at the top of the list of their “most admired people” in the world… Continue Reading

Tags: Barack Obama Election 2012 Iowa Lyndon B. Johnson politics

Constitutional Astrology: Presidential Virgos

Posted 8 months, 26 days ago.

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The constitutional astrologers here at Constitution Daily take a radical new approach to the zodiac: What does your sign say, not about the future but about the past? Continue Reading

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