The State of Partisanship

Run time: 57 minutes

Jonathan Rauch, author of Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy, and Julian Zelizer, author of In Defense of Partisanship, join Jeffrey Rosen for a wide-ranging discussion on their new books and the rise of partisanship in America. Listen on We the People or Watch on America’s Town Hall

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Explaining the president’s foreign affairs powers

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 5 minutes

“In the case involving the Trump administration’s curtailment of the U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID)’s funding, the Justice Department is asserting that such actions fall under foreign affairs powers granted to the president by the Constitution. ...” Read more

Dred Scott decision still resonates today

by NCC Staff | Read time: 3 minutes

“On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Dred Scott case, which had a direct impact on the coming of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s presidency four years later. ...” Read more

Jeffrey Rosen on CBS Sunday Morning: Are we heading toward a constitutional crisis?

Jeffrey Rosen appears on CBS Sunday Morning to discuss whether we are in a constitutional crisis and the limits of executive power. Watch now

Preamble

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

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