Government – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:40:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Government – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 First among Equals: The Founding Intent of Congressional Supremacy and Its Loss https://brewminate.com/congressional-supremacy-and-executive-expansion/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:03:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270730 The Constitution deliberately positioned Congress as the dominant branch of government, yet over time legislative supremacy has yielded

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]]> Founding Hesitation: The Presidency and the Constitutional Fear of Executive Power https://brewminate.com/founding-fear-of-executive-power/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:02:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270743 The Constitution created a presidency strong enough to govern yet restrained enough to avoid monarchy, balancing executive energy

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]]> Neither Force Nor Will: Judicial Authority and the Fragility of Constitutional Power https://brewminate.com/judicial-authority-fragility-of-constitutional-power/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:01:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270747 The Constitution granted the judiciary interpretive authority without coercive power, making its strength dependent on legitimacy rather than

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]]> Interpreting the Constitution: Competing Philosophies of Constitutional Meaning https://brewminate.com/constitutional-interpretation-competing-philosophies/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270752 The Constitution endures not only because it is written, but because generations of judges have debated how it

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]]> The Fourth Amendment and the Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance of the CIA https://brewminate.com/the-fourth-amendment-and-the-unconstitutional-mass-surveillance-of-the-cia/ Thu, 24 Feb 2022 15:20:51 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=171988 Congress must act fast to ensure the Fourth Amendment’s vitality in the modern age. The Central Intelligence Agency has

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]]> Congress Moves to Reclaim Its War Powers https://brewminate.com/congress-moves-to-reclaim-its-war-powers/ Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:40:28 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=160443 A new proposal also puts pressure on presidents to evaluate their foreign policy objectives more clearly to determine

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]]> An Introduction to Political Science and American Government https://brewminate.com/an-introduction-to-political-science-and-american-government/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:48:46 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=51388 Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.14.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Forms of Government Forms of government are

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]]> Reforming the Electoral College – Proportional Representation https://brewminate.com/reforming-the-electoral-college-proportional-representation/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:23:08 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=14312 Photo Credit: Matt Wade via Flickr Creative Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh / 11.15.2016 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief The Electoral

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]]> Origins of the Electoral College https://brewminate.com/origins-of-the-electoral-college/ Fri, 28 Oct 2016 01:05:57 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=13571 Roman Comitia Centuriata / Wikimedia Commons The process was never intended to be democratic. The first presidents were

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]]> The Ins and Outs of American Government: It’s Inspiration, Formulation, and Operation https://brewminate.com/the-ins-and-outs-of-american-government-its-inspiration-formulation-and-operation/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:36:30 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=13493 Photo By: Phil Roeder / Creative Commons Introduction Is government to be feared or loved? Thomas Hobbes set

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