Abandoning sovereignty would undermine American democracy, and destroy the advantages sovereignty offers America and the world. John Bolton, “The Coming War on Sovereignty,” Commentary, March 2009 ...

In fact, I endorse Aquinas’s view and devote an entire section of my NDLR article to explaining why originalism in the American constitutional context is consistent with Aquinas’s ...

Maybe you heard the term "popular sovereignty" in a history class. ... The concept has been around for centuries and did not originate in American politics. The term "popular sovereignty," however ...

Progressivism Versus Popular Sovereignty. ... The American people, in their characteristic spirit of resilience, have learned to live with COVID-19.

America today is ruled principally by bureaucrats and government experts operating at the president's direction. ... But it’s probably the best chance we have of reclaiming popular sovereignty.

Blending history, political theory, and commentary on current events, Jedediah Purdy's new book examines how that the United States continues to fail to qualify as a system defined by popular rule.

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the legislative assemblies elected by colonial voters in each province. Americans ...

The very title of Bruce Ackerman's now three-volume masterwork, We the People, signifies his commitment to popular sovereignty and, beyond that, to the embrace of democratic inclusion as the leitmotif ...

Likewise, ALC’s assertion that popes have “condemned popular sovereignty” ignores the numerous authorities I cite refuting that erroneous interpretation of papal statements on this issue. Id ...