So, if only Congress can impose taxes, how can the president impose tariffs? Here is the backstory. However one characterizes ...

Let’s call it what it is: a constitutional collapse. Congress’s abdication of its constitutional powers and responsibilities ...

Trump is different. His defiance lies in plain view. There is no dignity. There is no restraint. There is only power. The ...

The Constitution states that Congress has the ... traveled across the Atlantic in 1789 from King George III to President George Washington and was permanently reposed in the presidency.

The taxing power in the federal government resides in the Congress. The Constitution states that Congress has the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts” of the ...

A look at the views and background of LDS lawyer Sheldon Gilbert, who is the new head of the influential Federalist Society.

Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

If you are counting on a potential electoral contest between Barack Obama and Donald Trump, you might have to tamp down your ...

The Constitution is remarkably nonspecific ... might change overnight as battle lines shifted. George Washington sought oaths of loyalty to address this problem. He wrote to John Hancock ...

Less than three weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump is facing multiple lawsuits as he and those working for ...

From left to right: Henry Knox, Thomas Jefferson, Edmond Randolph, Alexander Hamilton, and President George Washington ... is situated in Article I of the Constitution. Even the election of ...

A select number of presidents have not sworn on the Bible, which was more common in earlier chapters of American history when specific rules and traditions weren’t as entrenched as they are today.