Editor’s note: This was originally posted on December 17, 2016.
What is American civil religion? And has it been distorted to the extent that it has undermined our nation’s foreign policy? The eminent historian and scholar Walter McDougall, author of the new book, The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy, joins this edition of Liberty Law Talk to discuss these questions.
Trump could emulate the actions of General Washington by accepting limited risks for some in order to protect the nation from more extensive ones.
In 1796, in the midst of the donnybrook over the Jay Treaty, President Washington asserted what we now call “executive privilege .”
Forget about venerating the fake Constitution taught in elite law schools, and remember to venerate the Constitution of the founders’ philosophy.