General Welfare, James Madison, and the 1817 Bonus Bill Veto
By Douglas V. Gibbs On March 3, 1817, John C. Calhoun and a handful of other Republican congressmen climbed the...
Hamilton’s Debt, and Today’s National Debt
By Douglas V. Gibbs A listener to the Saturday Constitution Radio program wrote to me about a video that “talks...
A Question of Interpretation
By Douglas V. Gibbs There is a fundamental debate in constitutional history that sits at the heart of originalist thought....
Shifting Baselines of History and Politics
By Douglas V. Gibbs America has been drifting away from its founding constitutional principles, a decay made possible by the...