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Andrew Jackson was the first president to defy the US supreme court. The question is whether Donald Trump will take a leaf out of his book.
It might sound right that if you do what your boss says, you’re doing a good job. But it’s different if your obligations are to the public interest and the Constitution.
By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun in the mid-19th century.
The US now faces the likelihood of a bruising and raucous set of confirmation hearings − a clear break from the cooperative system the founders established.
Donald Trump claims the 2024 election gave him a mandate. Scholars who study the presidency are skeptical about the entire concept of a mandate. That hasn’t stopped many presidents from claiming one.
His return follows the trail of another American president who rebounded from defeat to victory and then four years of unchecked power.
Donald Trump’s not the first American president who lied or viewed himself above the law, but he’s in a league of his own in terms of narcissism and an insatiable appetite for power.
if political loyalty replaces merit as the basis of key federal appointments, Americans can expect government to be less competent – as Andrew Jackson learned during his administration
Years of research about the people who work in the federal government finds that most of them are devoted civil servants who are committed to civic duty without regard to partisan politics.
Canada relies on established norms, rules and institutions to make the world stable. These concepts would be a great risk if Donald Trump made good on threats to disregard NATO.
Is American democracy an ‘experiment’ in the bubbling-beakers-in-a-laboratory sense of the word? If so, what is the experiment attempting to prove, and how will we know if and when it has succeeded?
The right is explicitly laid out in the same treaty that led to the Trail of Tears.
Only one president has done so – Franklin Delano Roosevelt – but others considered it, and even tried.
A president’s persona is always a public act. In that way, Trump’s shtick – vulgar man of the people – was not exceptional. And every president has had to invent his version of the role.
‘Mind your manners’ isn’t just something your mother told you. Manners – and civility – are an essential component of how things get done in government, and the Founding Fathers knew it.
For decades, presidents beginning with Andrew Jackson routinely replaced large swaths of the government workforce, often requiring them to pay fees to political parties in exchange for their jobs.
For decades, presidents routinely replaced large swaths of the government workforce, often requiring them to pay fees to political parties in exchange for their jobs.
‘Mind your manners’ isn’t just something your mother told you. Manners – and civility – are an essential component of how things get done in government, and the Founding Fathers knew it.
Five of the six disputed presidential elections in US history were resolved and the country moved on – but one ended in civil war. What will happen if the 2020 election is contested?
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Professor of American History, Università di Torino
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology; Institute for Humane Studies
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Emeritus Professor of History, University of Toronto
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Professor of Business Administration and of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of History, Arizona State University
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