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266		<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2026/09/18/the-constitutions-preamble-wisdom-for-america-at-250/" rel="bookmark">The Constitution&#8217;s Preamble: Wisdom for America at 250</a></h1>
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268			<span class="posted-on"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2026/09/18/the-constitutions-preamble-wisdom-for-america-at-250/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2026-09-18T10:48:37-05:00">September 18, 2026</time><time class="updated" datetime="2026-09-19T07:32:54-05:00">September 19, 2026</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="">Kevin Akalski</a></span></span>		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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273	    <p>Kevin Akalski joined Baylor University&#8217;s Political Science PhD Program in 2023. He graduated summa cum laude from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts with a double major in philosophy and political science. At Baylor, his fields of &hellip; <a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2026/09/18/the-constitutions-preamble-wisdom-for-america-at-250/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Constitution&#8217;s Preamble: Wisdom for America at 250</span></a></p>
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287		<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2026/06/08/upon-more-mature-reflection-hamiltons-about-face-on-removal-in-1789/" rel="bookmark">&#8220;Upon More Mature Reflection&#8221;: Hamilton&#8217;s About-Face on Removal in 1789</a></h1>
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289			<span class="posted-on"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2026/06/08/upon-more-mature-reflection-hamiltons-about-face-on-removal-in-1789/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2026-06-08T07:39:15-05:00">June 8, 2026</time><time class="updated" datetime="2026-06-09T11:55:50-05:00">June 9, 2026</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="">Gary J. Schmitt</a></span></span>		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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294	    <p>Gary J. Schmitt is a senior fellow in Social, Cultural and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. During the First Congress’s debate in which James Madison and others defended the ideas that the president had the constitutional power to &hellip; <a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2026/06/08/upon-more-mature-reflection-hamiltons-about-face-on-removal-in-1789/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;Upon More Mature Reflection&#8221;: Hamilton&#8217;s About-Face on Removal in 1789</span></a></p>
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310			<span class="posted-on"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2025/11/12/philip-k-howard-saving-can-do-how-to-revive-the-spirit-of-america-garden-city-ny-rodin-books-2025/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2025-11-12T14:56:27-06:00">November 12, 2025</time><time class="updated" datetime="2025-11-13T06:27:24-06:00">November 13, 2025</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="">David Lewis Schaefer</a></span></span>		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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315	    <p>David Lewis Schaefer, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, College of Holy Cross It is widely known-or it should be-that economic progress in America, and even our nation’s military security, are seriously hampered by a surfeit of litigation and excessive bureaucratic &hellip; <a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2025/11/12/philip-k-howard-saving-can-do-how-to-revive-the-spirit-of-america-garden-city-ny-rodin-books-2025/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Philip K. Howard, Saving Can-Do: How to Revive the Spirit of America. Garden City, NY: Rodin Books, 2025</span></a></p>
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331			<span class="posted-on"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2025/03/03/what-does-the-marque-and-reprisal-clause-say-about-war-powers/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2025-03-03T07:03:34-06:00">March 3, 2025</time><time class="updated" datetime="2025-03-03T07:03:35-06:00">March 3, 2025</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="">Jacob Rodriguez</a></span></span>		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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336	    <p>Jacob Rodriguez is a graduate student in political science at Baylor University. In late January, Senator Mike Lee (R–Utah) suggested an unorthodox idea to address the problem of drugs and violence along the southern border: to use letters of marque &hellip; <a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2025/03/03/what-does-the-marque-and-reprisal-clause-say-about-war-powers/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What Does the Marque and Reprisal Clause Say about War Powers?</span></a></p>
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350		<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/12/17/the-surprising-constitutional-dimensions-of-the-hunter-biden-pardon/" rel="bookmark">Is Hunter Biden&#8217;s Pardon Constitutional?</a></h1>
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352			<span class="posted-on"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/12/17/the-surprising-constitutional-dimensions-of-the-hunter-biden-pardon/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-12-17T05:38:20-06:00">December 17, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-12-17T08:46:18-06:00">December 17, 2024</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="">Jordan Cash</a></span></span>		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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357	    <p>Jordan Cash is an Assistant Professor in James Madison College at Michigan State University. It has become something of a tradition for lame duck presidents to issue controversial pardons on their way out of office. Bill Clinton pardoned both his &hellip; <a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/12/17/the-surprising-constitutional-dimensions-of-the-hunter-biden-pardon/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Is Hunter Biden&#8217;s Pardon Constitutional?</span></a></p>
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371		<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/11/21/whos-afraid-of-the-administrative-state/" rel="bookmark">Who&#8217;s Afraid of the Administrative State</a></h1>
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373			<span class="posted-on"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/11/21/whos-afraid-of-the-administrative-state/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-11-21T14:40:23-06:00">November 21, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-11-21T14:40:24-06:00">November 21, 2024</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="">Joseph Natali</a></span></span>		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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378	    <p>Joseph Natali is a graduate student in Political Science at Baylor University. On a recent episode of the popular podcast All In, venture capitalist and Trump supporter David Sacks concisely articulated a key aspect of the President Elect’s platform. “I’d &hellip; <a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/11/21/whos-afraid-of-the-administrative-state/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Who&#8217;s Afraid of the Administrative State</span></a></p>
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392		<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/11/13/alexander-hamilton-says-biden-should-pardon-trump/" rel="bookmark">Alexander Hamilton says Biden Should Pardon Trump</a></h1>
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394			<span class="posted-on"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/11/13/alexander-hamilton-says-biden-should-pardon-trump/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-11-13T12:10:04-06:00">November 13, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-11-13T12:10:05-06:00">November 13, 2024</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="">Roger Abshire</a></span></span>		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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399	    <p>Roger Abshire is Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Political Science at Texas State University. President Biden has continued the trend of recent presidents by granting very few pardons during the working portion of his term, by which &hellip; <a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/11/13/alexander-hamilton-says-biden-should-pardon-trump/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Alexander Hamilton says Biden Should Pardon Trump</span></a></p>
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413		<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/09/25/there-are-no-both-sides-to-october-7/" rel="bookmark">There are no &#8220;both sides&#8221; to October 7</a></h1>
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415			<span class="posted-on"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/09/25/there-are-no-both-sides-to-october-7/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-09-25T11:17:38-05:00">September 25, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-09-25T11:17:40-05:00">September 25, 2024</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="">Benjamin A. Kleinerman</a></span></span>		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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420	    <p>Benjamin A. Kleinerman is the R.W. Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He is the Editor of The Constitutionalist. There was a recent proposal at my University to have a campus-wide event commemorating October 7.&nbsp; They proposed bringing &hellip; <a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/09/25/there-are-no-both-sides-to-october-7/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">There are no &#8220;both sides&#8221; to October 7</span></a></p>
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434		<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/09/13/machiavellis-relevance-to-israeli-foreign-policy-today/" rel="bookmark">Machiavelli&#8217;s Relevance to Israeli Foreign Policy Today</a></h1>
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436			<span class="posted-on"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/09/13/machiavellis-relevance-to-israeli-foreign-policy-today/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-09-13T09:10:34-05:00">September 13, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-09-13T09:10:35-05:00">September 13, 2024</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="">David Lewis Schaefer</a></span></span>		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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441	    <p>David Lewis Schaefer is Professor Emeritus, Political Science at College of the Holy Cross. Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince (1527) has typically been dismissed as a how-to book on how ambitious would-be tyrants can acquire and hold power. But before succumbing &hellip; <a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/09/13/machiavellis-relevance-to-israeli-foreign-policy-today/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Machiavelli&#8217;s Relevance to Israeli Foreign Policy Today</span></a></p>
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456		<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/07/20/what-do-you-do-about-a-problem-like-joe-biden/" rel="bookmark">&#8220;What do you do about a problem like Joe Biden?&#8221;</a></h1>
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458			<span class="posted-on"><a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/07/20/what-do-you-do-about-a-problem-like-joe-biden/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-07-20T10:34:34-05:00">July 20, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-07-20T10:34:35-05:00">July 20, 2024</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="">Jordan Cash</a></span></span>		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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463	    <p>Jordan Cash is an Assistant Professor in the James Madison College at Michigan State University. In the weeks since the presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the question that continues to dominate American politics is “what are the &hellip; <a href="https://theconstitutionalist.org/2024/07/20/what-do-you-do-about-a-problem-like-joe-biden/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;What do you do about a problem like Joe Biden?&#8221;</span></a></p>
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