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4 days ago · The originalist ideology maintains that the meaning of the Constitution is fixed at the time of its enactment, and its provisions must be understood now as the public purportedly understood them back then. Yet the Supreme Court expressly rejected that very idea in May 1954 when it decided Brown v. Board of Education and recognized racially ...
1 day ago · The Federalist Party was founded by Alexander Hamilton to support political candidates that advocated classical republicanism, stronger federal government, and the American School of economics, while the Democratic-Republican Party was founded by Thomas Jefferson to support political candidates that advocated the agrarian and anti-federalist ...
4 days ago · The Federalist Party was a conservative and nationalist American political party and the first political party in the United States. It dominated the national government under Alexander Hamilton from 1789 to 1801. The party was defeated by the Democratic-Republican Party in 1800, and it became a minority party while keeping its stronghold in ...
6 days ago · The Political Scene Podcast. Randall Kennedy on Harvard Protests, Antisemitism, and the Meaning of Free Speech. “The word ‘safety,’ ” the legal scholar tells David Remnick, has “been very much...
4 days ago · Populism conventionally refers to efforts to assemble democratic majorities based on appeals to nationalism, xenophobia, revolutionary ideology, or other anti-pluralistic ideologies. Populism, which can take on right- or left-wing forms, is portrayed as the vehicle that delivers illiberal policy and thus contributes to backsliding.
2 days ago · The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists based mainly in the United States.
4 days ago · Speaking at a Capitol Hill event organized by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, President Joe Biden described the rise of antisemitism in the United States since Oct. 7 as “ferocious.” “As ...
