Constitutional Powers

The framers of the Constitution were very concerned about limiting the power of government and in securing the liberty of citizens. To strike a balance between authority and liberty is the central purpose of American Constitutional Law. To this end, they created three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial with separation of powers, and there were checks and balances of each branch against the other. This was to assure the guarantees of individual liberty. The Death of America occurred on November 5, 2024 as the fatal blow will culminate on January 20, 2025 with the ...

In an original assessment of all three branches, Jasmine Farrier reveals a new way in which the American federal system is broken. Turning away from the partisan narratives of everyday politics, Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial diagnoses the deeper and bipartisan nature of imbalance of power that undermines public deliberation and accountability, especially on war powers.

What if we stopped arguing about politics long enough to ask a more important question: What is a country actually for? This book starts from first principles and builds upward. Not Republican versus Democrat. Not left versus right. Not ideology versus ideology. Instead, it asks what a healthy civilization must accomplish if it wants to survive, remain free, protect its people, reward excellence, reduce suffering, and create the conditions for human flourishing. From that starting point, the book develops a practical framework for government built around five priorities: survival, security,...

Witness the explosive clash between autocracy and revolution that forged a modern Middle Eastern geopolitical powerhouse. Perfect for your daily commute, this gripping historical narrative plunges you into over a century of ideological warfare, foreign intervention, and the fight for...

In 2025, the United States stands at a constitutional crossroads. "Beyond the Two-Term Limit: 2025's Constitutional Crisis Over Presidential Power" delves into the unprecedented challenges facing the nation's highest office. As debates intensify over the possibility of a third presidential term, this comprehensive analysis examines the historical foundations of term limits, the evolution of executive authority, and the potential ramifications of altering this cornerstone of American democracy. Through meticulous research and insightful discourse, the book offers readers a profound ...

A clear-eyed investigation into the cultural, institutional, and political transformations reshaping public life. Is today’s “woke” movement a spontaneous cultural shift — or part of a deeper intellectual winnowing that echoes older collectivist doctrines? Woke Communism traces the ideas, institutions, and incentives that have taken root in universities, media, corporations, and public policy. Drawing on history, case studies, and policy analysis, this book argues that new forms of cultural activism have become entangled with institutional power in ways that reshape civic norms, ...

The War Powers Resolution: A Constitutional Crisis? by Gerald R. Ford offers a concise yet powerful examination of the struggle between presidential authority and congressional control over military action. Drawing on historical examples, legal analysis, and his own experience as President, Ford explores the origins and consequences of the 1973 War Powers Resolution. He questions its practicality, constitutionality, and impact on U.S. foreign policy during times of crisis. Blending real-world case studies with insightful commentary, this book sheds light on one of the most enduring debates ...

What happens when a democracy changes the subject at the exact moment accountability is closing in? Epic Distraction investigates the week America’s attention pivoted from mounting pressure over the Epstein files to military escalation with Iran—and asks what that shift revealed about war, media, money, and power. Beauregard Calhoun Bragg examines Operation Epic Fury not as a simple conspiracy, but as a case study in how modern crises function: threat narratives narrow debate, cable news rewards spectacle, Congress funds consequences after the fact, and debt-financed war allows ...

Before there was a president, there was a fear of one. Fear doesn’t arrive with sirens. It walks in smiling, carrying authority in one hand and consequences in the other. Counterbalance turns on the lights. It reveals how power has been drifting inside the American system, not in headlines, but in the machinery beneath them. It shows how the separation of powers, our oldest safeguard, was designed to protect the Republic, and how the rise of the administrative state has bent that safeguard out of shape. What follows is a gripping, clear‑eyed journey through the forces distorting the ...

What happens when presidential pardons, taxpayer money, federal settlements, and tax enforcement all begin pointing in the same direction? In The Presidential Loyalty Payout, Beauregard Calhoun Bragg examines one of the most consequential and underreported constitutional controversies of modern American politics: the emergence of a system that appears to link political loyalty, legal jeopardy, executive clemency, government compensation, and protection from ordinary enforcement. At the center of the story are three extraordinary developments: the sweeping January 6 clemency actions, the ...

The Supreme Court was designed to be independent. But independence was never supposed to mean unchecked power. In The Problem with the Supreme Court, Julian Mercer examines how nine unelected justices came to hold extraordinary authority over American life, often with little accountability, limited transparency, and lifetime power that can shape the country for generations. From abortion and gun rights to voting access, campaign finance, religious liberty, corporate power, presidential authority, and federal regulation, the Court no longer simply interprets the law from a distance. It helps...

Justice Robert Jackson once quipped about his role on the Supreme Court: "We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final." But in the end even the Supreme Court is not the final word on the law. There will always be another case, and another session of the court to consider it -- and maybe to reconsider what the court has ruled before. As long as The United States endures, the Supreme Court will have its work to do. Keep learning about the US Supreme Court with this book.

What happens when the people no longer trust the institutions designed to protect them? In The Illusion of Checks and Balances, a U.S. Navy veteran examines the growing belief that America’s political safeguards are no longer functioning as intended. What was once presented as a balanced system of accountability now appears, to many Americans, to be a political structure increasingly controlled by party loyalty, institutional protection, and unchecked power. This powerful entry in the A Letter to America series explores: The weakening of public trust in government The collapse of ...

A political pamphlet to reform the Rules of Congress. To require Congress to vote upon Declaration of War whenever the President initiates unauthorized military actions, and if not adopted, to stop use of military force by curative legislation To require Congress to intervene with timely acts to stop Executive abuse of powers by its deliberate defiance of laws and the Constitution

In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations - like minorities and women - have had a civil rights movement of their own and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision was the capstone of a 200-year battle....

Do constitutions still matter when the world is splitting apart? In an era of deepening political and social division, Constitutional Crossroads dissects how ten diverse nations confront the existential pressures testing their foundational frameworks. This volume goes beyond mere political narrative, using a rigorous comparative lens to examine real-world crises across the globe. Inside this vital analysis, explore: The United States – navigating explosive polarization and electoral strains. Britain – struggling with unwritten norms during the seismic shock of Brexit. Global Patterns ...

The presidency was never supposed to be a throne. The American president was designed to be powerful, but limited. Accountable, not untouchable. A national leader, not a national ruler. Yet over time, one office has become the center of American political life, absorbing more authority, more symbolism, more media attention, and more public fear than any democratic office should carry. In The Problem with the Presidency, Julian Mercer examines how the modern presidency became too powerful, too personal, and too dangerous to ignore. From war powers and executive orders to media spectacle, ...

As the highest court in what has become the world's most powerful nation, The Supreme Court of the United States sits at the faultline between the ideal and the real, between justice and power, between the serene majesty of The Law and the sometimes bombastic, sometimes grubby disputes that define our politics. In the arguments before the court, principles clash with ambition and avarice, and it can be difficult to tell which is which. The decisions that the justices hand back are often wise and reasonable, but there have been moments of folly as well, and on more than one occasion it has ...

What if Americans remembered who actually governs the government? Written anonymously by a U.S. Navy veteran, We the People Are the Board of Directors reframes American government using a clear, non-partisan framework that strips away political noise and focuses on responsibility, accountability, and constitutional design. This book explains: Why citizens are not subjects or spectators—but overseers The proper role of the President as an executive, not a ruler Why oversight is not obstruction How party loyalty has distorted civic responsibility Where power truly comes from in a ...

The Oath: A Short Perspective on Voluntary Obligation and the Discipline of Fidelity In The Oath, Paul J. Ferguson examines one of the most enduring and least examined foundations of leadership: the act of binding oneself to something greater than personal authority. Across constitutional systems, oaths are required before power is exercised. They are spoken in ceremony, but they are meant for something more enduring. This Short Perspective explores why institutions depend on sworn fidelity, how allegiance is properly ordered, and what it means to exercise authority within inherited ...