Chile and Deliberative Democracy

Nathan Gardels at Noema: “Constitutions need general acceptance so we can turn to their rules to manage our differences,” the former left-of-center Chilean President Ricardo Lagos told me in September 2022 after the first attempt to ratify a proposed new constitution...

Liz Cheney on Oaths

Liz Cheney, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning (New York: Little, Brown, 2023), 49. In Article VI of our Constitution, the founders required that every member of Congress, all state legislators, and “all executive and judicial officers” of the federal and state...

Knowledge of the Constitution

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center: Many Americans do not know what rights are protected under the First Amendment and a substantial number cannot name all three branches of government, according to the 2023 Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey. The Annenberg...

Burke, Dreier, Cheney

Supporting NAFTA in 1993, Rep. David Dreier cited Burke’s speech to the electors of Bristol: Last night, Liz Cheney articulated the same idea: Here’s Liz Cheney’s closing statement in last night’s debate among the Republican candidates for representative from...

Bound by a Solemn Oath

In Betrayal, Jonathan Karl publishes excerpts from a speech that Liz Cheney had planned to deliver on January 6: We are bound by a solemn oath, given before God, to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. We cannot comply with that oath only when it is...