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The Constitution protects many more rights than it mentions, as James Madison explained.

In 1787, James Madison articulated in Federalist Papers No. 10 that partisan polarization could fundamentally threaten a democratic republic. “Violence of faction,” as he called it, must be controlled.

Politics is nothing new in the supposedly august Supreme Court — and it's often been the worst possible kind

Anti-abortion interstate travel bans would have multiple constitutional defects.

To successfully govern, the United States, like all democracies, must effectively navigate among competing ideologies. When competition is manifested by vigorous debate leading to compromise, democracy works. If, however, ideology begets hyperpartisanship, then dysfunction, paralysis or even civil war can be the result. The inevitability and pitfalls of adversarial government…

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censure of government employees, students, professionals, and others might.

“In a word, just as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be said to have a property in his rights,” wrote James Madison, one of the founding fathers of the US Constitution and the fourth President of the United States, in his essay…