Historian Walter Isaacson says the second sentence of The Declaration of Independence is the greatest sentence ever written ...

The Divine Right of Kings is a very old concept, in fact, thousands of years old. It is, in a nutshell, “a political and religious doctrine of royal absolutism, asserting that a monarch is subject to ...

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Three days before Independence Day, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its historic and democracy-shattering ruling that U.S. presidents have almost absolute immunity to criminal prosecution. Former ...

Bishop Robert Barron recently wrote an op-ed attacking me for a point I made during a Senate hearing about the origin of legal rights. The hearing featured testimony from a witness who claimed that ...

A would-be king wants a coronation on June 14, a date already laden with meaning: Flag Day, the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army, and, yes, Donald J. Trump’s 79th birthday. But this ...

A would-be king wants a coronation on June 14, a date already laden with meaning: Flag Day, the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army, and, yes, Donald J. Trump’s 79th birthday. But this ...

A would-be king wants a coronation on June 14, a date already laden with meaning: Flag Day, the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army, and, yes, Donald J. Trump’s 79th birthday. But this ...