Outside the Beltway

Like it or not, the U.S. Constitution has always been a political document, evolving depending on the players on the stage.

For the first time in 35 years, the Senate may finally be on the verge of reforming the filibuster.

If 33 states can muster support to kill a law, how would it have gotten enacted to begin with?

Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is speaking positively about an Amendment that would drastically alter the relationship between the Federal Government and the states, and a method of ratifying it that could do serious damage to the Constitution as a whole.

Eliminating earmarks is good policy and good politics.

Reason’s Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie have a pretty amusing rejoinder to the Obama administration’s attempts to smear the anonymous funding of television ads opposed to their agenda in a video titled “Who is Publius? or, Who’s Afraid of Anonymous Political Speech?”

Arnold Schwarzenegger predicts President Obama’s re-election. Historically, that’s the safe bet.

In his farewell speech on Friday, Rahm Emanuel said that the Obama Administration had faced tougher times than any previous President. That is a fundamentally absurd idea.

Both the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, impressive as they are, must be understood in terms of not just applied political philosophy, but practical politics as well.

The competition for 25 Greatest Americans was steep. Only 3/4 of Mount Rushmore made the cut.

The Obama Administration is dismissing the results of a referendum in Missouri that purports to strike down health insurance mandates.

In the first entry in this series we looked at a basic question of democratic theory. In this one, we look at whether the EC ever worked as the Framers intended.

Much to the disappointment of Ezra Klein and others, it’s unlikely that Democrats will have the votes necessary to change the filibuster when the 112th Congress convenes.

No, the founding fathers of the United States were not “very afraid of a central government.” Indeed, such an assertion makes no sense.

Bill Kristol’s hero of the Revolutionary Era is Alexander Hamilton. Who is yours?