Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. Our rules of government are ...

As the nation confronts questions of judicial legitimacy, it is worth remembering that the Constitution’s framers left Congress—not the court itself—with the authority to shape the institution. The ...

Part II of The Collective-Action Constitution develops a collective-action theory of the Constitution's federal structure and identifies limits of this theory. Chapter Three examines the states' ...