The U.S. Constitution can reasonably be seen as a massive tax and mercantilist trade-promotion program. However, there's a third leg to this stool. It was ...

The Constitution expressly authorizes the Congress, among other things, to “provide for the common Defense,” U.S. Const., Art. I, § 8, cl. 1; to raise and support armies, see id. § 8, cl. 12, and to ...

The Constitutional Convention accepted the need for a standing army but sought to maintain control by the appropriations power of Congress, which the Founders viewed as the branch of government ...

The Army’s ranking civilian leader, ... labels the Jan. 6 riot “an attack on the U.S. Congress and our constitutional democracy,” and follows a similar statement by the Joint Chiefs the day ...

A constitutional crisis in 1860s Prussia could teach Americans the importance of public participation ... the Lower House of the Diet favored army reforms that would bolster the nation’s ...

The army even rejected symbolic concessions to the NLD and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. It blocked the party’s bid to change the constitution’s description of Myanmar from a “disciplined ...