Having elsewhere reconstructed the 1787 debates at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention on the Presidential Electoral System, I shall here proceed to analyze the system by itself,...
As noted in my previous article on James Wilson, one of most learned of America’s Founding Fathers, the business of electing someone to public office is...
The campaigns for the forthcoming January elections are descending on America. Let us review some basic ideas about democratic elections, for which purpose we can do...
There has been understandable chortling among Republicans that at the Democrats’ first debate they finally came clean on the “s-word.” Long considered almost taboo in American...
Dear Mrs. Clinton: After watching the CNN Democratic debates, I was very impressed with how confidently and authoritatively you spoke about the issues. Since I am...
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.”...
For as long as the human race has existed, there have been victims. Some, such as Abel, may have been taken off guard. Others fell victim...
“The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty look innocent, and...
Over the last two decades Americans have become increasingly aware of the nation’s decline. It has taken many forms, including a public school system that was...
Most commentators on Israel have been afflicted by a syndrome they share with every Israeli government whether led by the Labor Party or by the Likud....