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The Founding Fathers Didn’t Envision This — They Envisioned Congress Doing Its Job

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The Founding Fathers Didn’t Envision This. They Envisioned Congress Doing Its Job. Ask most Americans what the Founding Fathers wanted, and you will hear something about freedom, liberty, and a strong president who can take charge when things get messy. That story feels comforting. It is also a modern rewrite. The system the Founders designed […]

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Once, Treason Laws Served Kings Against Their Rivals. Now the GOP Wants to Borrow the Crown

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Treason™: Now Available as a Executive Order, Courtesy of Donald Trump One of the Founders’ quietest flexes was how paranoid they were about the word treason. Not paranoid like “red-strings on a corkboard,” but paranoid like “we just fought a king who used this word to kill his critics.” So when they wrote the Constitution,

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